Janice Schakowsky

Actually, we did, didn't we, in the people's budget that the Progressive Caucus introduced? That budget balances the budget, cuts the deficit, cuts the debt, but doesn't try to take it out of the hide of middle class people in the same way…

For 2 years. That's about $30 billion a year in cuts. So they've already given up, really, about $60 billion from a normal increase in wages just to pay for the cost of things going up. Everybody knows that the cost of food and gasoline…

The FDA has become too risk-averse in terms of what the agency requires device manufacturers to do

President George Washington knew if we didn't do that, that we would not see the United States of America becoming a world leader or even putting its own people to work and being able to grow.

Macroeconomics, a nonpartisan forecasting firm, said that those cuts would throw about 15 million more people out of work, double the unemployment rate from 9 percent to about 18 percent, and cause the economy to shrink by about 17 percent…

I think it is very important to clarify the record regarding the history of the loan guarantee.

Both 'Mr. I.' and Mr. Frantz made it clear that Solyndra's application was not in any way rejected by the Bush administration.

I would like to address one specific refrain from our Republican colleagues, the assertion that the Bush administration rejected--that is a quote--Solyndra's application, only to have it revived by the Obama administration.

The Solyndra bankruptcy has generated a political controversy, as you might expect when taxpayers take this big a hit.

This is about depriving women of contraception by large hospital systems, smaller organizations, and potentially even all healthcare coverage.

I have some things I would like to submit for the record.

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.

I just wanted to note the number of religious organizations that Mr. Pallone inserted testimony into the record.

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 family planning.

The Catholic Church is all of the people in the Church, which includes the 98 percent of Catholic women who use a contraceptive.

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.

Why should the conscience of an employer trump a woman's conscience?

Allowing employers to exempt themselves in providing prescription contraceptives for their employees is counterproductive, unfair, and paternalistic.

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.

Instead of saying that the mercury that's released is a potent neurotoxin, I say, ``becomes a potent neurotoxin that can damage the development of an infant's brain,'' because that is the science. That's what happens.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I would like to ask my friend, Mr. Whitfield, since we're now talking about mercury or methylmercury, if the amendment that I offered read, instead of the way it does, ``If Congress finds that mercury…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: After section 1, insert the following section (and redesignate the subsequent sections, and conform…

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.