Nita Lowey

Your budget would slash funding for CDC's Center for Chronic Disease Prevention by a whopping $237,000,000.

the President's Budget guiding principle, one that bolsters military spending while sharply cutting funding in education and training, while claiming that we simply cannot afford it, is an argument that I wholeheartedly reject, and I am…

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.

Your budget would cut funding for CDC's immunization activities by $78,000,000.

A cut of $5,000,000,000, as the budget proposes, would reverse this trend and send the wrong signals to young scientists.

Congress never contemplated that the SSAE grants would be used for the purchase of firearms.

I consider this every bit as much as Defense budget as anything as DOD. I mean, as I have said on many, many occasions, we are much more likely to die in pandemics than in terrorist attacks.

You are taking the agency from enforcement. You are taking away from weeding out bad actors to offering bad actors technical assistance...

I am hoping that--and I am sure that our chair, we will be, in fact, putting more money into the Pell Grant program.

It would also cut the NIH by 13 percent.

Not only do you ignore racial and socioeconomic disparities in our education system, you propose policies proven to increase the divide.

I continue to oppose your indefensible silence which leaves the door open to states using Federal dollars to arm teachers versus current law.

You are responsible for the care of thousands of unaccompanied children who continue to stream across our southern border.

Let me very clear: Our nation's security cannot afford a budget that does not adequately fund our diplomatic and development programs, or life-saving humanitarian assistance.

The draconian cuts this administration continues to advocate are irresponsible--particularly at a time of unprecedented human suffering--and wholesale haphazard cuts are not an option.

For as long as I have been a part of this Subcommittee, we have had bipartisan agreement that foreign assistance is critical to our national security and to maintaining America's leadership role in the world.

I respectfully ask the committee to maintain or increase funding for Colombia.

I am deeply concerned about the fate of the peace accords and human rights in Colombia.

If I did, I would take two things, one that we in the ONE Campaign will join our colleagues in advocating for a robust 150 account.

Thank you for your commitment to humanitarian development assistance and for the good politics you bring to U.S. humanitarian and development leadership.

Together, the requested funding level and the report language will send an unequivocal message to other donors that the U.S. will maintain its leadership on the Global Fund.

This year, the Global Fund is holding its sixth replenishment to put the world back on track to end the epidemics of AIDS, TB, and malaria.

This is a tumultuous time around the world, globally democracy is in crisis. The right to free and fair elections, freedom of the press and the rule of law are under assault.

If all students in low-income countries left school with reading numeracy and citizenship skills, 171 million people could be lifted out of poverty.

This model of development, of bringing in private capital, is becoming more prominent as the needs just can't be met with government-alone resources.