Funding was sharply cut over the years, and in 2012, Republicans on this Committee tried to eliminate the entire program saying it was too flexible.

My colleagues on the other side of the aisle must have misread their calendar because Halloween, I believe, was on Saturday.

They say that as if helping Americans is something bad.

Far from being duplicative as we have been hearing, I would say that those seem to cover a pretty wide range of critical needs.

Words get tossed around like 'coordination,' 'flexibility,' 'consolidation.' It all sounds great, but the effect is always the same.

What is really scary is what my colleagues plan to do going forward, what they propose to do in their budget.

Republicans aren't reconciling with us to work in a bipartisan way. They are not reconciling themselves to the fact that the Affordable Care Act is the law of the land and that it is helping people access quality, affordable healthcare…

I thank the gentleman from Michigan for yielding me the time. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this latest attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act and the benefits it has brought to millions of Americans. While this is the 61st vote…

If you ask the American people, ``Who should be paid first, these guys or these guys?'' I suggest they would agree with us. These guys should get paid first. Oppose this Pay China First Act, and let's keep America first. Let me also add…

In fact, you would have to have every seat won by one party or in coalition with parties to in essence have any possibility of affecting change in terms of Burma's constitution.

Most of the people I met had perished because of this governmental decision.

Burma is at the very top of countries in the world, the single top country in which it is most likely that we will see mass atrocities and genocide in the coming weeks.