Thank you, Madam Chairman and Ranking Member Booker. And thank you for passing your time on to me.

To the people I hear from, whose young children are having sudden new allergic reactions and have to pay $600 for an Epipen, the average cost increase doesn't matter to them when you're not part of the average, right?

The goal for 2017 is to have 192,000 providers trained.

I rise today in opposition to the Congressional Review Act measure, which would allow discrimination against title X family planning providers, which in turn could roll back access to family planning and preventive health services for…

I would rather for my children and future generations that we assume--I mean, that we are responsible today and start passing the reforms.

I am very concerned that when we see a budget that eviscerates something that most people in Congress agree has been important for critical projects that keep our economy going, that we don't throw one thing out before we have a good idea…

Well, thank you very much. I thank the Chair for your indulgence. And I'll just encourage you to be an advocate for strong transportation within the administration.

The idea of threatening of default all the time as if, and which is, by the way, the conversation in 2011 was one where there was no way to actually use extraordinary measures.

Our economy doesn't move if we don't have a strong transportation infrastructure. We can't lead the world without it.

Elimination of this program would have a devastating economic impact on rural communities that these airports serve.

TIGER grants were completely eviscerated, and that's in the absence of anything coming forward from the White House.

I am truly hopeful that the threat of these kinds of consequences will help ensure that Senators from both sides of the aisle can come together and work out a clean budget deal without any poison pills.