Nita Lowey actually said...

"You have allowed contractors who cheat their workers to continue with, quote, ``business as usual.''"

"For all of our greatest health crises we need our great agencies to be fully involved in finding the solutions."

"I would like to increase this budget as much as we possibly can, because I feel we are not really working on numbers here on this committee."

"I believe my friend, the ranking member, Tom Cole, will concur that biomedical research is one of the most important investments a country can make because it gives the gift of life."