I want to thank today's panelists for coming to testify before us this morning.

And, quite frankly, what has really upset me was that basically implied that the people who are trying to put the union together are Mafia based.

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

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

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

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

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

the only way to save by consolidating job training programs is by cutting services.

I know that the Administration has made improving program integrity and reducing improper payments a very high priority.

Could one or more of you help us to understand what is meant by improper payment?

I want to see where there is the impetus and where there is the will and the openness to try to look at what we are going to do in spending $4,000 per person in this economy, in this budget year, when what we have seen with H.R. 1 is…

We are eliminating community health centers, which is a major portion of our health care system.

We live or die here by programs that are authorized or not.

The point I want to make is that cutting the Pell Grant funding... will reduce the number of low-income students receiving bachelors degrees each year by about 61,000.

On behalf of the students in my district and across America, I want to thank you and the President for committing to investments in education.

Slashing the Nation's most cost-effective, accountable, and market-driven solution for the millions of youth who leave our schools unprepared for the workplace, in my view, is a wrong move at the wrong time.

I think they may be Pell Grant recipients and probably SEOG recipients, et cetera, and are counting on...

this effectively terminates the Federal Government's role in the workforce development, something that did not occur under President Reagan's administration, not even under President Nixon.

I support your mission and the good work that you are doing at Health and Human Services.

I strongly welcome the emphasis you placed on Pell Grants, maintaining the maximum award at the current amount of $5,550.

Can you tell us why you believe worker misclassification is a serious problem that merits priority attention?

I cannot stress the importance of Head Start enough.

This request invests in continued medical research at the National Institutes of Health.

Ben Bernanke--and I talked about him yesterday in the education hearing--says the most important fiscal issue is whether the public interest is served by the composition of the government's budget.

I think I can quantify, as well as I know members of the Congressional Black Caucus, can quantify how earmarks have benefitted our districts.