Rosa DeLauro

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

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

Let me associate myself with the comments that were voiced earlier by my colleague Barbara Lee about the impact of consolidation, competitive grants and the lack of earmarking, which in fact is going to result in very critical programs not…

I am sorry, Ms. Roybal-Allard. I apologize.

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

It is a very competitive market. We still continue to see that we are not recovering as quick as we want to.

I truly do want to see the numbers, Madam Secretary, because I think those numbers ought to see the light of day.

If H.R. 1 is passed, which will eliminate WIA formula programs to provide job training and employment-related assistance, where will these job seekers be able to turn for help?

The question of deficit reduction is where you start? And it should not be on the backs of people trying to make a living.

It did nothing about attacking the $40,000,000,000 we provide for a subsidy to a special interest, and that is called the oil industry.

Let's create a balance here. We do have to get out of this hole, but it is not going to be just on the backs of 12 percent of this budget.

So every opportunity is gone as a result of H.R. 1.

Job Corps successfully prepares 60,000 economically disadvantaged youth for jobs, military, higher education, with an astounding 80 percent success rate.

The Republican budget looks to cut in half programs that work.

It would seem to me that we would want to put some money in there to actually do so.

The right will protect you. The right side will protect you.

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.

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.

To cut the deficit, the majority could have ended $40,000,000,000 in subsidies to oil companies, $8,000,000,000 in agricultural subsidies to big businesses, $8,000,000,000 in giveaways to multinational corporations who send their jobs…

The budget stands in a sharp contrast to the plan outlined by the majority in H.R. 1, which includes radical spending cuts that will cost Americans jobs and jeopardize our prospects for economic recovery.

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.

I suspect that is one of the reasons why we are taking a very hard look at what they do and what those outcomes are, which makes enormous sense if we are going to be investigatory and have oversight as to where some of our Federal dollars…

I just would add a point on this that I think it is important to note, that reports are that the for-profit institutions represent 11 percent of higher education students, 26 percent of the student loans, and 43 percent of loan defaulters…

If you talk to any economist about what stimulates the economy, it isn't the tax cuts for the richest 2 percent...

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