"This committee was able to provide every facet of the Federal Government with adequate, responsible funding, while continuing to reduce Federal spending."
"the reality is that we need to tackle our mandatory spending programs, where two-thirds of spending is now located, the real driver of our debt."
"I fear this budget request undermines that duty with the same budget gimmicks, unauthorized legislative proposals, and cuts to frontline security operations that we have sadly come to expect under thi..."
"But now they are switching to using heroin, an opioid, obviously. And the rise in heroin abuse now is what the Attorney General yesterday called, quote, 'an urgent public health crisis,' end of quote."
"And yet, to combat this urgent public health crisis, in your budget you proposed cutting the Coast Guard drastically--the one agency that can protect our shorelines against this invasion of a health c..."
"Your budget would put Coast Guard at a 5-year low in cocaine interdiction--a 5-year low."
"Any program that spends money we want to know about, we are entitled to know about, and demand to know about."
"While the U.S. makes up only 4.6 percent of the world's population, we consume 99 percent of the Hydrocodone."
"FDA took this big step backwards in my opinion and approved Zohydro."
"So we have filed a bill in Congress to undo that decision."
"the administration looks like it is abdicating its responsibility to enforce the Controlled Substances Act by refusing to challenge state laws that legalize a Schedule I drug."
"for the chief law enforcement of the nation, the Attorney General, to tell the world, and especially his law enforcement colleagues, not to enforce a law on the federal books is a little bit more than..."