Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlewoman for yielding, and I rise in strong opposition to this spending bill. In it, House Republicans have reduced funding to the NIH and the National Cancer Institute and virtually eliminated funding for medical and behavioral research into deadly diseases. House Republicans eliminated the CDC's tobacco prevention and control programs. I repeat: House Republicans have defunded our most important antismoking programs with this bill. Deaths will be the reality if these cuts come to fruition. How can Republicans still be this beholden to Big Tobacco? House Republicans also eliminated the Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative despite States like Florida, where we are seeing a 33 percent spike in new HIV diagnoses. With this bill, House Republicans are eliminating Healthy Start, whose sole mission is to improve the well-being of expectant mothers or those who just gave birth, all to reduce infant mortality. On top of that, this extreme MAGA bill eliminates funding for title X family planning because their far-right ideology forbids access to reproductive health and related preventive health services. Of course, House Republicans have eliminated the Teen Pregnancy Prevention program in tandem with riders that block access to abortion services or reproductive healthcare services.…”