Rosa DeLauro

Our budget also supports the President's call to provide every child in America with access high quality early learning services.

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

For years, members of this committee, including Rosa DeLauro, Frank Wolf, and myself, have worked to provide SAMHSA with resources to prevent underage drinking through the STOP Act.

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 also interesting that your budget is almost entirely staff or support for staff.

Members have to continually be aware of what is at stake in these efforts.

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

The reasons disability claims are going up?

I cannot see the clock, so I do not know if I have any time left.

I will give you the benefit of the doubt, Jack.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

You cannot have it both ways. You cannot make a determination that you do not want to provide the money and then say, my God, you are losing money.

I too would be opposed to that cut.

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

As soon as the first Social Security check was issued, poverty amongst the elderly began to drop.

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

Can you let me know just what sequestration would do to the food safety area?

What is going to happen to the patients and the doctors?

And I would just say to all of you, you just continue to-- and I listened to your testimony--reinforce what my view was all along, that the agencies that you head up and what you are charged with, quite frankly, is giving the gift of life…

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.