Rosa DeLauro

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

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…

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I compliment you on the anti-fraud measures.

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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