Women now make up half the Nation's workforce, but they face a host of unique and disproportionate challenges in the workplace.

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

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.

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

It is another sequester on steroids.

I plan to fight for their continuation.

But I believe this proposal represents a backward approach to job creation.

I think that is very important.

I am begging you, Mr. Secretary, tell us that you are moving forward with a lifesaving rule because millions of low-wage workers across the country continue to risk their lives.

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

I have been involved in putting together something called the Women's Economic Agenda, which focuses on three main priorities--pay and rising pay, work-family balance, and childcare.

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

480,000 people die every year from a tobacco-related illness.

strong funding for the CFTC reduces the deficit in many more ways than a lot of other actions

When someone said to me we were going to do research on the glass-eyed sharpshooter, I said and what could that be research on?

The American people do not want to see the Affordable Care Act repealed.

Eight to 1. Thank you.

if we are serious about pipelines, and new young researchers and their success rate, and we put a very, very big emphasis on this, then we need to be serious about the kinds of allocations that this subcommittee gets

It is not doing more with less. It is doing less with less.

I think people sit here and believe that it was the halcyon days of health care that we had experienced before the Affordable Care Act.

One of the most important pieces of the Affordable Care Act is its focus on increasing access to preventive services.

I just want to say--and Mr. Chairman, Dr. Harris--it would seem from the commentary, and it is not there because manmade is out there.

Let me ask about next-generation anthrax. Where are we with anthrax?

It is unfortunate for the debate on Affordable Health care that the other side did not come forward with any program.

If you have a plan for dealing with affordable care for the people of this Nation, I would please ask you to come forward with it and just lay out what it is that you would do.