Bonnie Watson Coleman

I am concerned about the $200 million cut to the NIH.

Public education is a great equalizer, and the reason the Federal Government has a role in public education was to guarantee that children were protected, that opportunities were available, that there was equality and equity of the…

So those individuals don't have to fear trying to get tested or treated or whatever?

We don't have that sense of confidence coming from the CDC or from the White House.

Having information come back, having information collected, having information in a central location, and having information available is something that is very important.

I want to thank the gentleman for yielding to me, and I want to thank him for this leadership on this very important issue. I join him in calling for support and passage of the Transportation Security Officers Act. We rely on…

if you didn't lose them, you just--you failed to report them.

I would like to know the status, on behalf of this committee, of those 1,369 children who were separated from their families.

So my question is, how do we lose that many children in the system?

How is it that the Department apparently lost track of the fact that it took those 1,369 children from their parents?

Appallingly, the Department still cannot even accurately account for the total number of children separated from their parents.

I am concerned that many of those children have not been reunited with their families a year-and-a-half later.

I would like to talk about the Trump administration's policy that resulted in the intentional separation of thousands of young children from their parents in the summer 2018.

Of particular interest to me is that the President's budget does increase as it relates to dealing with those things that happen on the border.

Can you tell me what you are doing to ensure that public housing authorities receive timely payments?

We very much want a briefing.

Thank you. I yield back. Thank you, Madam Secretary.

We know that today's segregated communities are the result of discrimination against minorities throughout the country's history.

The reason that the Federal Government got involved in fair housing and in education was because it was not happening on the local levels.

It seems counterintuitive.

I was just wondering whether or not the whole issue of positive train control had been addressed.

I believe in the concept of Affirmably Furthering Fair Housing. I just want it to be effective.

I don't think all the transit agencies, including the one in New Jersey, are necessarily poised to complete in that amount of time.

The new Medicaid proposal from the White House is a reverse Robin Hood on steroids, a coordinated effort to steal from the poor and give to the rich campaign donors at Mar-a-Lago and other places. This White House has put Medicaid on the…

It is my understanding though that there is no centralized body within the Department that gives the program a stamp of approval or certifies that they are ready for prime time.