David Price

it is extremely important that Members hear not to blindly follow, you know, what comes out of the White House but to remember there is a whole set of obligations here that need to be adequately funded.

I thank my colleague for yielding and for taking up this Special Order to focus on the role of the Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities in American life and the need for us in this body to have some historical perspective and…

I think that is probably what we have done with the faith-based treatment programs. We have tried to vilify them and undeservingly.

I think faith-based programs should be definitely included.

We could not be prouder of our team's victory last night. To paraphrase the greatest basketball player of all time and a fellow UNC alumnus, Michael Jordan, who was perhaps channeling Yogi Berra, ``The ceiling truly is the roof.'' Hark the…

I think whatever we do at a policy level we need to be open to a variety of paths that people choose.

They were not getting aid for the last several years. It was bewildering, aggravating, and angering that so many people would be bypassed.

It is outrageous that the ethnic conflict has resulted in thousands, tens of thousands, of lives being lost through gunfire and killings of various kinds.

I urge you fully to fund the Green Climate Fund, which supports the efforts of developing countries in curbing their emissions.

This is not the time to cut international aid.

It is our moral imperative and it is representative of our American values to help our neighbors.

U.S. foreign aid helps the U.S. as much as it helps the nation it serves.

U.S. foreign aid is not merely philanthropic. It is smart strategy.

I, therefore, request that the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the MCC, and the U.S. Agency for International Development, the USAID, are given full funding in fiscal year 2018.

I want to thank our colleague and friend for being here and for taking note of the attention this committee paid in the current cycle to New Starts...

This hearing is an important opportunity for us as appropriators to examine the emerging technologies in the transportation sector.

We need to invest nearly $4.5 trillion just to bring our infrastructure from poor to good condition.

We have to do our best, as always, on behalf of our institution and our power of the purse and the kind of priorities, a lot of which we are going to hear about today.

Let me reiterate we are happy to have you as part of the Congress. I welcome you and thank you for your testimony today.

The GAO has noted that across-the-board hiring freezes are almost always counterproductive.

We really have come together, as we must come together, as an institution and as a country, I believe, in face of this.

I am also concerned with the Trump administration's painfully slow pace when it comes to the appointments of deputy and assistant secretaries and other high-ranking officials.

I just do not get it. I certainly get the idea of partnership and seed money.

the administration seems to be saying that Democratic oversight has no legitimacy, that oversight is only the prerogative of the majority party.

I want to begin by underscoring what my colleague, Mr. Dent just asked you to take back to the White House, that is the need sooner, rather than later, for a bipartisan agreement not just on the debt ceiling but also on the budget numbers…