Rosa DeLauro

Public education is a great equalizer in our country.

Should they cover maternity care, make it optional.

That also includes a network of community action agencies.

I would just ask you to strongly urge the NIH to issue a new funding opportunity in Fiscal Year 2018.

This is about access to healthcare. Access to healthcare.

We need to hold him to the law, and so that he should not be interfering with what is the constitutional right of access to healthcare.

We cannot let another year go by without funding to do this research. Since Congress ended support for gun violence research, more than 600,000 people have been shot, and I think we can all agree that enough is enough.

The Federal Government has a critical role to play in supporting State and local communities as they work to combat the tragic consequences of addiction.

If you can't quantify anything, you really don't have much of an analysis.

So there was really no quantitative analysis to deal with what you were doing.

I am asking for short answers. I have asked short questions, and I am not here to filibuster.

Was there an analysis conducted?

So let me be clear. The fact of the matter is, is that, in fact, employers will be allowed to pocket the tips of their employees, yes or no?

For the past year under this administration, working families have been under an all-out assault, in my view, as I said.

ILAB is one of the few Federal agencies with the explicit responsibility to help level the playing field so that American workers are not forced into unfair competition.

That would appear to me this is the same as indentured servitude that you get.

Your view seems to view that there is legal wage theft is okay.

I would just say the last year of the Obama administration, there were 196,000 jobs created per month. First year of the Trump administration is 171,000 per month. So, in fact, job growth slowed.

A national policy would not be a patchwork.

In my view, it would allow people to walk around State and local laws that we have today, and maybe that's what people want.

Only 39 percent of employers with 50 or more employees allow employees at least five days to care for a mildly-ill child.

This is not what the FAMILY Act does. It creates a fund with shared contributions.

Let me just tell you that the United States Congress, we have an infinite amount of sick days.

It is concerning that these plans could enable employers to avoid compliance with state and local paid leave, family leave, wage and hour, and predictable scheduling laws.

The Healthy Families Act, H.R. 1516, introduced by Representative DeLauro and which I am a cosponsor, establishes a worker's right to earn paid sick leave.