Rosa DeLauro

Congress should consider reducing premium subsidies for the highest income participants in written comments.

Do not talk to me about China because if you wanted to deal with China in the rules of the road, then this agreement would have a currency chapter that deals with currency manipulation because quite frankly, that is the biggest issue that…

How do you justify, in the face of all the data that you produce, that this Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement is going to increase agriculture products around the globe and be good for American farmers and American families?

But what I truly do want to do is I just want to make a quote here and then I am going to ask my questions because I think one of the most fascinating things is what Pope Francis said with regard at that conference about the issue of…

One of the things that I really am concerned about in the U.S. is that it used to be that education was just in the purview of the wealthiest people...

If we are not willing to make the investment... then that is where our priorities ought to be.

Thank you. Dr. Fitzgerald, I would just say that working with some of our high schools in my community with Platt Tech and others who work with United Technologies and so forth and some of our small businesses, our manufacturing small…

I don't think it is appropriate for taxpayer dollars to go to a Federal contractor who violates Federal laws, discriminates, or puts workers in danger.

I do, as I said, implore you to please make sure we have a program that supports American workers and allows them to achieve the kind of economic security that they need for themselves and for their families.

The biggest single issue that we have today in the United States is that people are in jobs that just do not pay them enough.

I would say this to you, Mr. Secretary, and in so many ways implore you with this effort is to ensure that Americans have a fair shot at taking a job before we begin to bring in workers from other countries.

This is a question that I think my colleague, Mrs. Lee, would like to ask, but she had to leave.

About 17 percent of those tax cuts go to the wealthiest 1 percent.

I think it is also important when we take a look at the budget, it is about $1,500,000,000,000 that is spent on tax cuts.

I believe it is shortsighted. I would like to work with my colleagues to reestablish that cap adjustment...

I will say that, in Connecticut, it is a partnership between community colleges and the healthcare industry to train veterans, dislocated workers, for new careers.

I want to make sure that, as you move forward on this, you don't forget that, you know, given unemployment rates in the African-American and Latino communities...

We need to do better.

Overall, this request moves us in the right direction.

I applaud you for making this a priority.

Paid leave should be a fundamental right for all Americans, and your proposal would move us in that direction.

I strongly support your request for an additional $500,000,000 to fund career services for unemployed workers, particularly veterans.

I want to say to the chairman that, in the HHS budget, there is a $1.5 billion increase in Head Start.

And, you know, folks who are a lot smarter than me, people like James Heckman, who is a Nobel Prize-winning economist at the University of Chicago, talks about a 7-to-1 return on investment.

I think it is unconscionable that we continue to subsidize an industry with taxpayer dollars that leaves students, and especially veterans, with high debt and no degree.