Rosa DeLauro

Millions of low-income children have healthcare through CHIP.

Americans can no longer be denied coverage for preexisting conditions.

The Affordable Care Act is helping millions of families across our country.

That is a disaster for American public health. We must do better.

FDA is under court order to issue the regulations necessary to implement the Food Safety Modernization Act.

The way that we can really deal with China is to deal with currency, and currency is not going to be part of the TPP.

Given the findings as reported by the USDA and the threat that the 11-nation TPP poses to jobs and wages for the average American worker, how does the Administration justify the pursuit of fast track authority for this trade deal?

Sometimes you just do not know the answer to all the questions. I get that.

Just for one second, both Brazil and Argentina have checkered food safety pasts.

I have been for nearly a decade been urging the Department to finalize the mechanically tenderized beef labeling rule.

I do not expect it will be a back burner issue.

The language that was in the Omnibus would prohibit because we do not know what the future will bring us in this area.

So for the State nutrition programs and the school district programs, you are only purchasing domestic product?

Thank you to you, Mr. Secretary, for your work in preserving and strengthening child nutrition, WIC, SNAP, commodity supplemental feeding programs.

One area of great concern to my constituents in Kansas is China's unjustified barriers to U.S. agriculture.

I honestly have no sense of whether we were impactful, whether we were effective or not.

The failure to adequately invest at the Federal level comes at a time when States are still lagging behind pre-recession education spending.

Last year, several of us worked extremely hard to restore funding to the Job Corps that had been cut due to sequestration.

I am hopeful that what will be able to happen is that we can encourage States to ensure that our most at-risk kids, and their parents, are given the opportunity to attend these programs.

The fact is we are somewhere about 25th, 26th, 28th amongst industrial countries.

We just want more children in this country to have access.

This has become a total bipartisan issue in the real world.

This is a birth-through-5 agenda. So we want a seamless continuum.

First let me associate myself with my colleague, Congresswoman Roybal-Allard's comments on the Ability-to-Benefit provision.

The budget put forward by Chairman Ryan that the House is considering this week threatens to do even more damage.