"I think that a mandate of this sort is very unwise. I have made this very clear."
"Your budget request is for $8.1 billion in discretionary funding. That is a cut of $364 million, as you know, or 4.5 percent from your current year appropriation."
"I am also wary of the proposed transfer of the funding and responsibility for the Emergency Food and Shelter Program from FEMA to the Department of Housing and Urban Development."
"I hope, of course, that an individual will soon be nominated to be the director of ICE."
"I am disappointed that this budget does propose a reduction in these programs."
"I want to particularly register my concerns with the proposed cuts to FEMA grants and to the Coast Guard's acquisition budget."
"Just consider the economic benefit of one NIH supported research initiative."
"The work supported by NIH saved my life as it has saved countless other lives."
"Every dollar that goes to NIH grants results in $2.21 of local economic growth."
"How do the people who own backpage.com, how do they live with themselves?"
"the time has come for our country to think anew about, not just in the Federal system, but in the State system too."