Further, they are proposing to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which would take away health coverage for millions of Americans.

71 percent of young Americans cannot qualify for military service because they are, too poorly educated, medically or physically unfit, or have a disqualifying record of crime or drug abuse.

I am concerned that your budget would lead to a weakened public health system that cannot come close to meeting the needs of the public.

Its mission is to, quote, ``foster, promote, and develop the welfare of wage-earners, job-seekers, and retirees of the United States...''

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

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

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

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…

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

This Budget relies on anecdotal evidence and false concepts that you call choice and freedom.

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.

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