Nita Lowey

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

This BUILD Act is something that is sorely needed as a diplomatic tool around the world through our embassies and the State Department.

By law, we can only provide 33 percent of total Global Fund resources leveraging commitments from other donors.

This year Congress has a unique opportunity to advance and accelerate the end of these three terrible epidemics.

Chairwoman Lowey, I would love to thank you so much for your leadership on global education and in particular for your support for this Fiscal Year 2019 contribution of $90 million.

The Global Fund is the world's largest global health financer.

Chairwoman Lowey, your legislation, the Global HER Act, would end this deadly policy.

the U.S. have played a critical supportive role in the adoption of Workforce 2030, the first ever global strategy for the health workforce

while it may look like a cost-saving measure to cut the foreign aid budget, it is truly an expensive proposition over the long term.

Thank you, Madam Chairwoman and the full subcommittee, for your ongoing support over many years of America's leadership in the fight to end the world's deadliest epidemics.

USAID helps the world's most vulnerable people, assists in the recovery of millions from natural disasters and conflict, and supports democracy and the rule of law. These development efforts are on the frontline of our national security.

We recommend the subcommittee ask agencies to annual report on their collective frontline health workforce pre-service, education, recruitment, training, retention, connectivity, and safety efforts

I don't have my roller skates on but there are a lot of hearings going on at the same time today.

We have heard from the Commonwealth government and others that FEMA is implementing this authority in a manner that appears to be much more limited than Congress intended.

You are slashing international family planning programs by more than half.

To say this. Some of things we agree. I mean, I don't believe in forced abortions, Okay? But I don't believe in forcing women to have children if they don't want to have children.

The democratic response to state-sponsored information warfare must be rooted in democratic principles of transparency, accountability, and integrity.

I don't think there is an issue--and I say this all the time--that is more important and more urgent than addressing what Russia is doing, especially as a result of their actions in the last election.

As President Trump recently said in Miami, we can see the day ahead when all the people of Latin America will at last be free.

I cannot say we were successful, but I don't think we can give up.

It is one thing we don't use federal funds for abortion, I may disagree with that but the fact of the matter is your new interpretation of what was called a gag rule now is harming organizations that are doing just general healthcare…

I guess it is my turn. I just wanted to add to my good friend, because this is of great concern to me, we are waiting for this great peace plan that Jared and Jason Greenblatt are waiting to produce, but I haven't seen anything yet, and I…

President Vladimir Putin's Russia seeks to weaken Western governments and transatlantic institutions, discredit democratic values, and create a post-truth world.

I am hopeful it will happen soon, but I am extremely frustrated

So this administration has put, of course, additional resources which we are pleased about--into the domestic HIV epidemic, but you are stepping back now from our leadership on the global side.