Rosa DeLauro

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.

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.

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

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

I think it is important to note for the record that irreversibly this disease destroys the small airways in the lungs.

Will current funding be able to address that backlog? You have got $8 million in this CR.

I think otherwise it would be quite a patchwork here.

Shouldn't we move to ensure that workers are not put at risk during this inherently dangerous practice?

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

I believe it could have been avoided with certain specific safety standards in place to deal with natural gas.

Black lung is preventable, but you also talked about the increasing incidences, the new cases of black lung in young miners.

Should miners die while waiting for litigation to be concluded at mines which are chronic violators?

H.R. 1, the 2011 appropriations bill passed by the House in February would have cut OSHA's budget almost $100 million.

I would just say about Head Start... there are many, many studies on Head Start, and there are many recent studies.

But what would be useful is to understand how effective each of these programs is.

Are we currently providing sufficient appropriations to the Department for program evaluation?

You didn't find duplication among the education programs we are discussing here today?

You didn't find waste, as I understood.

Have you formally evaluated the Department of Education's consolidation plan?

I can give you some examples with regard to food safety. You and I should talk about this because I have been wanting to consolidate the 15 agencies into one single food safety agency.

We have committees of the whole on the floor. We did that with regard to healthcare.

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

I just want you to take issue with the Huffington Post, not with the minority.