I am here because of the grace of God and because of biomedical research.

If the funding prohibition goes into law, what happens, Madam Secretary?

I think one ought to take a look at the $14 million in school-based health centers that increased the number of children served by about 50 percent.

But it is a question of what patients need and the therapies and the treatments, et cetera.

Companies can no longer deny children with preexisting health conditions the ability to be in the insurance market.

Appropriations have been reduced by $735 million over the past two years, meaning cut backs in capacity to detect and control epidemics.

In 2009, less than 1 in 5 of the insurance plans that sold in the individual market included comprehensive maternity coverage.

We ought to double the amount of money so that we continue on that trajectory of providing the NIH with the resources that it needs in order to be able to look at new efforts as well as to continue the research and other efforts which are…

At a time when there was in Mississippi 21 percent either unemployment or underemployment, 16.5 percent of the population was kept from going hungry because of the food stamp program.

Are you opposed to allowing them to take a pill or to get an IUD in cases where their lives depend on it?

In a pluralistic society where we all have different beliefs--I, for one, am opposed to the war in Afghanistan, but my tax dollars are supporting the war in Afghanistan.

The fact of the matter is that the churches, synagogues, mosques, other houses of worship are exempt, as are their employees.

I support religious freedom. I support every type of religion in America. But I do not support imposing my religious beliefs or anybody else's on anybody else.

I believe that the President bent over backward, or rather the administration, to make this separate.

There is an exemption for the Catholic Church, other houses of worship, for the Catholic Church and the synagogues, for mosques, there is an exemption.

I think wherever fraud exists and abuse exists, it ought to be rooted out.

I think everyone in this room agrees that our government should be as efficient as possible.

As we sit here today, 13.7 million of our fellow Americans are unemployed.

The majority's budget for this year, H.R. 1, effectively terminates the Federal Government's role in workforce development.

No investment is more critical than investment in our human capital.

to empower employees to represent themselves in the workplace. This, of course, is one of the fundamental democratic principles at work.

It would cut back $845 to the Pell grant program that would affect 9 million students.

So my question is, what is OSHA doing to address the risk of workers handling natural gas.

Amicus briefing is a good practice. It is open. It is transparent. It is engaging.

H.R. 1, the majority's 2011 appropriations package that passed the House in February, cut the NLRB's budget by $50,000,000, or 18 percent.