Nita Lowey

I am very concerned about the morale at the FBI in the wake of the proposed budget cuts and the disparaging comments made by President Trump.

Unfortunately, this budget request fails to uphold these principles.

These efforts are misguided and will harm the Department's goals.

So cuts certainly are not going to help us when it comes to background checks.

I find it insulting that the leader of an agency that we oversee has refused to testify before us.

Ranking Member Serrano and I are disappointed that Attorney General Sessions canceled on us for the second time.

I represent many immigrants, people who came to this Nation looking for a better life, and I represent people of all faiths, including a significant Muslim population.

At the outset, I want to thank Chairman Frelinghuysen. It has been a pleasure for me to work with him. I am cautiously optimistic that we will complete this process. Although overdue, we will get our work done. This is the third continuing…

I am extremely disappointed that your budget proposes to take funding from public education and transfer it to private schools.

If the Republican healthcare bill had passed, 14 million low-income Americans would have lost Medicaid coverage and their access to treatment along with it.

This isn't about parents making choices. This is about use of Federal dollars.

I was disappointed to see your budget request includes focus grants, which is, in essence, a $1 billion Title I portability proposal.

Ready to Work does identify open jobs in a community and trains Americans to fill those jobs.

Will that be a guarantee from you for our students?

Since 1999 sales of opiates in the United States have quadrupled. I am so concerned about this increase...

I do hope that you and your staff are really focusing on programs such as the apprenticeship program, which has been so invaluable, and not accept any proposed cuts in that program.

Given the security implications of having a President present, are you relooking at the issuance of visas for what the President deems his winter White House?

I am very upset with the 24 percent cut requested by the Trump administration, because it will result in more human suffering and more lives lost that could have been saved.

This proposal should be dead on arrival.

Your budget would cut $9.2 billion from the Department of Education, a cut of 13.6 percent, taking us back to 2002 levels.

I think the real concern is that the EEOC responds to complaints that are made and the OFCCP proactively audits companies to make sure that they are complying with discrimination.

Your budget proposal cuts apprenticeships, and the budget justification does not propose targeted funding to reach underrepresented populations.

The Trump administration's budget proposal, however, would eliminate that entire amount in just 1 year by cutting $8,000,000,000 from the NIH.

If you are funding with vouchers private school, the money is coming from someplace, and there is an overall cut in the budget.

In Massachusetts, this is a terrible crisis, much like Vermont and Kentucky and other States.