the authority of funding the Federal Government is held by Congress and Congress alone.

Well, in New Hampshire, there is overwhelming public support for those Planned Parenthood centers, and I think that's true across the country.

But, Mr. Secretary, that isn't in effect what these cuts would do.

During--in your budget, you would, for the first time under any President ever, totally cut all funding from going to Planned Parenthood.

this budget goes in exactly the wrong direction. There's a 23 percent cut to SAMHSA.

I know that you have been to New Hampshire, and you appreciate that next to West Virginia, we are the State with the highest percentage of overdose deaths in the country.

But they don't have the capacity to provide for that coverage. And if the Planned Parenthood centers are providing good coverage for people, its preventive care, why do you want to shut them down?

I am here this afternoon to speak about the amendment to address sanctions on Russia, but I want to preface my remarks by saying, like all of us here in the Capitol today, that my thoughts are with Congressman Scalise and with the staff…

What do you tell those people who are in recovery who are getting treatment about what they should do when you cut off those Medicaid payments that are their sole means of getting help for their substance use disorders?

the Trump administration is committed to bringing everything the Federal Government has to bear on this epidemic.

it is not beneficial in those efforts for us to be looking at a budget that would cut dramatically our support for those efforts

It is important that we continue to hold them accountable to standards.