"This is about depriving women of contraception by large hospital systems, smaller organizations, and potentially even all healthcare coverage."
"The Catholic Church is all of the people in the Church, which includes the 98 percent of Catholic women who use a contraceptive."
"Why should the conscience of an employer trump a woman's conscience?"
"And whether my colleagues admit it or not, their attempts here today are meant to turn back the clock on the great strides the Affordable Care Act has and will continue to make for women's health."
"It never used to be that family planning was considered a partisan issue and it never used to be that family planning was equated with abortion."
"Allowing employers to exempt themselves in providing prescription contraceptives for their employees is counterproductive, unfair, and paternalistic."
"The attention this committee has focused on and continues to focus on the private lives of women makes it clear that one of the goals of the majority is to end access not just to abortions but to fami..."
"the time is long past that we do that."
"repealing the CLASS Act doesn't mean that the widespread financial and physical and emotional suffering of older and disabled Americans goes away."
"We need a long-term care policy. The CLASS Act is a good start."
"This is not a regulatory document. It doesn't enforce, but it does inform the conversation we have about a very serious problem, and that is childhood obesity."