We are committed to making certain that every American has access to affordable coverage.

I am very, very excited about the opportunity to take this new effort based on research and data.

I believe that the President, and, again, I am sorry if this is offensive, continues to work for millionaires and billionaires, not everyday Americans.

If we do not invest in our children, we will have no future to defend.

If you really want to evaluate programs, then we shut down those that are bad, and move forward with good ones.

I want to be excited for every community in this country with regard to early childhood education.

the soft bigotry of low expectations.

Will you work to avoid such premium hikes by enforcing the current law?

Like I referred to it once, what is going to happen with Medicaid with B rationing, this would be rationing as well.

I think that there is an enormous role for CPB to engage in this and this effort in a very highly professional, competent way that can do nothing but assist the people.

we cannot deny their chance to succeed or having a selfish choice of which children will get an education.

I want to make it very clear that we will call out any attempt by your department to undermine Americans' health coverage.

There is a growing mountain of evidence that early childhood interventions like these work.

We cannot turn our backs on them.

If you want to do early childhood development, early childhood education well, the whole childcare piece, it is not on the cheap.

President Trump's budget plans are nothing more than a broken promise, while special interest loopholes remain intact.

So, you need a substantial Federal investment in those efforts.

Congresswoman Roybal-Allard said, get a good-paying job and take care of your family.

I am focused on the college degree or courses or opportunities for individuals who make up this segment of our country.

This is not a road, park, or bridge. This is about people's lives.

I have accompanied many busloads of senior citizens who have taken that trip across the border.

we spend a lot of time investigating fraud, waste and abuse in the SNAP program; little time investigating abuse in the crop insurance program, which does not have income limits in place.

Approval of medical devices on limited scientific data can have life-threatening consequences.

If you could provide us with the statement--and I know a lot of people take the statement seriously that this is about the issue of regulation and how much regulation we should have or shouldn't, and what is overregulation.

your proposal for a user fee increase, quite frankly, is not going to happen.