Maggie Hassan

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?

I just got back from my home State, where I heard from a constituent whose cancer treatment... would cost him $34,000 out-of-pocket.

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

When I asked Border Patrol agents over and over again, 'What do you need?', they told me they needed technology and, yes, some additional fencing.

I am not sure that is a cost the American taxpayer is willing to bear, especially when they were told that Mexico would be paying for the wall.

I think the thing we should be doing is listening to the people who are tasked with securing the border.

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.

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

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

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…

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

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.

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 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.

I am also concerned that government shutdowns can have much of the same effect.

The EAS program was designed to ensure rural communities still receive commercial air service even in areas that would otherwise not be profitable for the airlines.

Without this critical funding source, these passengers would be left with less options, higher ticket prices, and lengthy commutes to other airports.

We have been presented with a budget blueprint by the Administration that causes a lot of constituents in my small state of New Hampshire concern.

I simply do not think we should be balancing the budget on the backs of rural Americans who need access to aviation services.

Can you commit that if confirmed as Secretary of Labor, you will advocate for and seek funding that will maintain OSHA's enforcement budget at no less than current levels?

I think it isn't the phrase 'sub-minimum wage' that is disrespectful; it is disrespectful and, frankly, discriminatory to pay people who are qualified to do a job sub-minimum wage on the basis of the fact that they experience a disability.

I expressed last week in a Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearing that I'm concerned about the creative nature of these drug cartels.

If you build a wall along the southern border, while making major cuts to the Coast Guard, you're just incentivizing cartels to smuggle in more drugs in other ways.

If the allegations are true, it shows that Russia had made use of a powerful tool to disseminate misinformation

There needs to be a hard conversation about when the government is going to defend a firm like that in New Hampshire.