Rosa DeLauro

This investment promotes social mobility within and across generations so that the link between childcare and employment is critical.

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

The completion of these financial reviews are critical for Senate confirmation.

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

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

I am interested to hear more of what you had to say about drug pricing.

You need to act on those products we now know are putting people's lives in danger.

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

Foodborne illness causes $36 billion a year in medical costs, 3,000 deaths, 128,000 hospitalizations, and 48 million foodborne illnesses every single year.

I believe that the budget, reflecting a 9 percent cut, $119 million, is shortsighted.

Our inability to negotiate for better pricing is a huge issue.

I think that robust oversight of derivatives is not overregulation. It is the right thing to do, so that we don't have the crisis that we had with Wall Street, and its hurting Main Street.

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.

The public needs to be protected from fraud, manipulation, and abusive practices related to derivatives and other products.

I want you to be able to use the authority. Sometimes there has been reluctance to use the authorities when it comes to food safety.

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

I think it is critically important. I think the continued underfunding of your agency has been a mistake on our part

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

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.

I think that we need to really have Congress take a look at this again.

Can you tell me how President Trump's January 23, 2017 memorandum regarding the hiring freeze would further impact the work of the Farm Credit Administration?

The Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act, H.R. 1439, sponsored by Rosa DeLauro from Connecticut, which would ensure paid family leave for all qualified workers, had 124 sponsors, not a single Member from the other party.

We had a $66 billion increase for defense and nondefense, and we actually cut funding for chronic disease prevention at CDC by $22,000,000, or about 2 percent.

Eighty-six percent of annual medical costs in the U.S., 70 percent of deaths, can be attributed to chronic disease.

I wholeheartedly agree with Leader Pelosi that Congress should stay in session until we have dealt with emergency funding for Zika.