Eleanor Holmes Norton

I say that because so many of those caught in the opioid epidemic depend upon Medicaid, four in ten adults struggling with this addiction.

You cannot begin to help somebody and then say, 'I'm sorry, we have reached the limit of what we can spend on your addiction.'

I am trying to find the real deal on the resources that are committed to this program, and you have $1.5 trillion in Medicaid cuts over the next 10 years.

If you take a second look, and you had better take a second look very quickly, you see that the President has very inconsistent policies here.

I am pleased that the Administration, after two years without a specific strategy, has developed since January a strategy so that the budget will enable a strategy.

The effect on overall business, and not only in the DMV, but in the country, ought to be noted.

We'll work on both of those bills and try to combine them to get them through.

See, this is the private sector. So they--and one thing...

This is a very important point. We're different agencies here, and I wonder if any of the rest of you used this redeployment?

Mr. Chairman, under things that we might consider, this confusion, at least, it seems to me we could help eliminate.

Are you saying this would have to be done at the state level? There's nothing that could be done to clarify this--the layoff took place at the Federal level.

The Federal Government has, over time, made a decision to outsource much of the work of the Federal Government.

Almost none of the witnesses appearing today would have been appearing, I guess, when I was a kid growing up in D.C.

The Federal Government can, having made that decision, be allowed to escape responsibility

The effect on overall business... ought to be noted.

I'm trying to get them through at least the appropriation process.

I'd like to just get on the record whether this bill I am sponsoring would help in any way any of your employees.

I would like to put on the record, if you would allow us, some sense of what employees... would be the sources of income...

I applaud your creativity.

We figure that's who they are.

If I could say, I'm also cosponsoring a bill that makes it 200 percent of pay.

I have a bill that would allow some backpay for workers who work in--who are contract workers in retail, food, custodial and security.

This 35-day shutdown was unheard of in American history. Our job is to make sure it doesn't happen again although, of course, we were not responsible for it.

So when you're in our line of work, it's hard to look at that and not think that that's not anything but a direct reaction to the diversification of this country and this electorate.

I appreciate that every Member of this subcommittee is a cosponsor of H.R. 51.