Rosa DeLauro

And I know you are aware our global R&D funding forecast was published in 2011, showed a decline in U.S. research commitment relative to our GDP.

And we have to move out of misinformation and philosophical interpretation of these efforts.

We need to find out.

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

I was alarmed to find out that only male lab rats were used in research.

Regrettably, we still have a lot of work to do in that regard.

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?

In our review of the records for these four grant awards, we found no evidence that the grants violated prohibitions on the use of Federal funds for lobbying, publicity, or propaganda.

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.

I think Mr. Fleischmann has said that we shared the concern that the health care system was failing people and that we needed to reform it.

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

The American people do not want to see the Affordable Care Act repealed.

It sounds to me like some of the commentary here this morning is about taking us back, taking us back to what was regarded as a failing health care system.

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.

The TAP effort is directed by the Congress, and particularly the TAP--it was the Bush administration that wanted to bring the TAP number to 2 percent

I think we could say that the Affordable Care Act has been successful in constraining the growth of healthcare spending.

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

Isn't it true that the American consumers have saved $1.5 billion in premium costs due to the Affordable Care Act?

Isn't it true that about 3 million young adults have coverage today because the ACA allows them to stay on their parents' plans?

I have spent my entire career fighting to ensure universal access to high-quality, affordable health care.

As Representative DeLauro has said, continue to fight waste, fraud, and abuse.

We expand elder justice initiatives that protect our parents from abuse, neglect, and exploitation.

Ultimately, we all agree that there can be no opportunity without security, and the investments we are requesting in ASPR, CDC, and NIH matter to the security of every family.

This budget protects the progress we have made in the last 4 years to expand the opportunity of more affordable health coverage to more Americans.

We believe that we can make this generation a tobacco-free generation if we are willing to take action.