Janice Schakowsky

I am focused very much on having an educated workforce that can well serve your industry.

I feel that the greatest challenge facing humankind on Earth today is climate change.

When people are insured, we have lots of evidence that shows that people get care earlier, they get better care, and they are less likely to die than people who don't have insurance.

Everyone here agrees that we have a growing aging population.

What I see in the plans that have been suggested on the Republican side is cost-shifting.

Are we really saving money if we cut these people off from the kind of preventative or appropriate intervention here?

Are you kidding me, that we are going to, tomorrow, see the passage of a budget that not only repeals Obamacare...

CISPA stands alone in failing to follow this common wisdom.

But those successes are not universally shared. Inequality is at its highest point since the Great Depression, unemployment is stuck hovering around 8 percent and wages are stagnant--as they have been for decades--for most American workers.

Next week, I plan to re-introduce the Honest Budget Act, an important piece of legislation that would address some of the most common accounting tricks used by politicians to hide the truth, confuse the public, and run up the national debt.

I strongly support approval of the Honest Budget Act in its entirety, and I welcome any future hearings this Committee may hold to examine its various provisions.

As you begin work on this year's budget resolution, I encourage you to look with a clear eye towards the state of our economy, American workers, and the nation as a whole.

It's been said before many times--and it remains true--that budgets are moral documents.

We don't think that that estimate was credible and we asked them to do another one.

We agree, we all agree that waste, fraud and abuse is a problem

The $716 billion that Democrats were able to save through Obamacare that reduced the cost of Medicare without cutting benefits

We want to and have been cutting the waste, fraud and abuse and we need to build on our successes

I appreciate his decades of work to make Medicare, Medicaid, the programs our citizens rely on, more efficient.

I feel like sometimes we overlook the importance that beneficiaries can play in fighting fraud.

We agree, we all agree that waste, fraud and abuse is a problem.

The $716 billion that Democrats were able to save through Obamacare that reduced the cost of Medicare without cutting benefits.

We want to and have been cutting the waste, fraud and abuse and we need to build on our successes.

Concerns about the impact of hydraulic fracturing on water are well-documented.

We need to make sure that the EPA does follow up and examine the cause of contamination of drinking water.

Budget cuts that undermine implementation of our environmental statutes are penny wise and pound foolish.