Rosa DeLauro

There is a danger, in my view, about the integrity of the standards that are imperative to consumers and confidence in our food safety.

If we are serious, let us provide the FDA with the budget authority that it needs commensurate with the job that it does.

I really want to make sure that you are looking at diversified operations, that you have those farmers in mind as you work to improve the proposed rule.

They want to know how the rules will impact them and how they will fit into the system.

I certainly hope that we can enact these kinds of commonsense savings in this effort.

The ACA is the law of the land, and our constituents deserve to access quality insurance options on its exchanges.

If you have 400 positions vacant, that says to me that there are a whole bunch of things that are not getting done.

I have serious concerns about the binding dispute resolution.

I continue to oppose the administration's elimination of the Microbiological Data Program.

I think that this is one of the clearest examples of why we need to have a single food safety agency.

It is simply unacceptable for this program to slip through the cracks and for us to lose this type of data.

I do not believe that those trade implications ought to take precedence over the safety of the food and the public health here.

Your budget request is impossible to be met under those circumstances; is that correct?

The Budget Control Act set budget caps through 2021. They are estimated to cut nondefense discretionary spending by roughly 5.4 percent in real terms.

It is over 60 percent, as I understand it, Mr. Secretary.

Expanded mission cannot be accomplished without modest increases in resources.

Today is unfortunately a wasted opportunity. Instead of building on the momentum of the conversation around Equal Pay Day and advancing real family-friendly reforms, the majority is recycling a policy that does nothing to help working…

I am proud to have joined my colleague, Rosa DeLauro, from New Haven, Connecticut, as an original cosponsor of the Healthy Families Act legislation which provides paid sick days to nearly 30 million workers.

Today is unfortunately a wasted opportunity.

This bill just provides a way for employers to pay workers less in the name of workplace flexibility.

Working families deserve better than a bill that forces them to choose between overtime pay and the family-friendly policies they desire.

Clearly, it would seem to me that we have work to do to ensure a proper--appropriate oversight by RMA of insurers.

I think we opened a door here that really would put our food safety in that--it would put it at risk.

And is there a dollar amount attached to any of this? And if you don't have that, I really want to know what we are doing here in terms of dollars as well.

Terrific. Appreciate that.