I want to especially thank committee members for your support of our efforts to provide a safe environment for unaccompanied children who enter our country.

the budget proposes a major new investment to help ensure that students and young adults get the mental health care they need

I just find it so, so interesting that my majority counterpart has--we are always eager to bring up waste, fraud, and abuse.

I hope my colleagues on the other side of the aisle will help us to uncover the 26 people who get at least $1,000,000 in a premium subsidy from crop insurance.

It is important to point out that the request was made for the implementation fund, but it was denied by the Congress.

The study's number one finding was that Head Start children enter kindergarten performing above their peers in all measurable categories.

The decision to let that go through in my view puts the basic functions of Social Security at risk.

I too would be opposed to that cut.

Do you agree that we face a prescription drug abuse epidemic?

The American public has to accept the fact that they are not going to get the kind of service that they got in past years.

I think it is important--and I know Mr. Alexander asked about the facility in his district.

Social Security is the ultimate legislative expression of the shared values of this Nation.

the closures, as I understand it, will respond to the pressure of dealing with flat funding you pointed out, which has been eroded by inflation.

Like you, I am very concerned about the impact of the March 1 sequester on the American economy.

This is disappointing. After last year's testimony from Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson said that any price for crude oil over $70 is speculation.

Some very important programs and services have been cut: the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP, has been reduced by $1.6 billion.

What the NIH does, and the research it supports at universities, hospitals, and institutes across the country, is unquestionably important to each of us. It alleviates suffering. It saves lives.

These new proposals arrive after 2 consecutive rounds of budget cutting.

While we were able to provide a modest increase for NIH in 2012, it was not enough to reverse the cut enacted for 2011.

Millions of women who are taking advantage of the no-cost-sharing preventive health services in 2011 will have access to women's preventive health services.

Fifteen years ago, this subcommittee made a determination on a bipartisan basis to double the amount of money that went to the NIH.

The House majority is renewing its demands for more and more drastic cuts that, in my view, will harm medical research and many other priorities vital to our well-being and to our future.

Seniors are now seeing a 50 percent discount in their brand name prescription drugs when they hit the so-called donut hole.

I compliment you on the anti-fraud measures.

Thank you for all of your hard work in implementing the Affordable Care Act, including the recently announced preventive measures for women to be covered without a co-pay.