Rosa DeLauro

Finding treatments and cures for cancer, Alzheimer's, diabetes, infectious diseases, substance use disorders, and other debilitating illnesses should never be partisan issues.

For-profit OPMs are the new predators in higher education.

I am deeply concerned that I am over some of my House Republican colleagues' calls for massive spending cuts.

Whole child approaches to education

Education, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer.

If we don't build on those investments, but if we move backwards on that, we then will have not been able to--we will slip back in very profound ways to communities.

We need to take a very, very hard look at the investments that we have made and the benefits of those investments.

If nearly 75 percent of House Republicans had voted for Representative Massie's amendment to H.R. 5, if they succeed in their goal that authority of the Department of Education, Secretary of Education, operator, administrator, any office…

Cuts of this magnitude would take back our progress at a time when we should be fighting for more investment in our students and teachers, not less.

We should be doing everything we can to increase access to these programs, not cutting off very basic education services for children who need them.

Investing in kids, not defunding their education, is how we make our economy stronger and our future brighter.

Let me reiterate, nearly 75 percent of my Republican colleagues voted to eliminate all K through 12 education funding last month.

Last month, Representative Massie introduced an amendment to H.R. 5 that read, and I directly quote, 'Any office or program related to elementary or secondary education should be terminated by December 2023.'

My child would not have survived without Medicaid.

I created the School-Based Mental Health Services Grant Program.

There isn't any more noble cause that we are engaged in than saving people's lives.

A 22 percent reduction to DOL-funded workforce training and development would prevent 750,000 job seekers from accessing services.

I am concerned as I acknowledged the proposed Republican cuts to the Department's budget.

Cuts to the Department of Labor would cut workforce training and development for 750,000 job seekers.

Cuts to the Department of Education would remove more than 100,000 teachers and service providers from classrooms serving low-income students and students with disabilities funded through Title I and IDEA grants.

I am concerned that rural communities will suffer the brunt of the impact if some of my Republican colleagues move forward with their plan to roll back spending to the 2022 level.

Our rural communities are integral to our national economy, to our history, to our identity.

Let us educate ourselves on what these cuts mean.

Childcare, I will tell you parents are not going back to work, what that does to the economy.

I couldn't be more pleased with the 2024 budget request for HHS.