Nita Lowey

I look forward to working together, because we have done it before and I hope we do it again.

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.

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

We are choosing to hamper our progress as a Nation, we are choosing to ravage our medical community.

I think I will get right to the questions because I know that my colleagues have additional questions.

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.

So supporting these programs, making sure we are supporting our schools in science training, in apprenticeship programs, all the issues we talk about, are important.

Last week it was reported that agencies have been instructed by the administration not to respond to letters from Democrats requesting oversight-related information.

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

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.

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

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

But you don't want to put some sand in the gears or find that there is some part of the machine that has sort of run out of its particular maintenance.

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.

Why should the American people pay for an unnecessary border wall while cutting funding for worker training and apprenticeship programs?

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?

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

But your budget cuts the core workforce development programs by a staggering 40 percent.

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

Will that be a guarantee from you for our students?

There is no defending cutting thousands of research grants.

I am deeply concerned by the President's elimination of these protections.

Behavioral health, mental health, addiction treatment, is health, and it belongs in health care just as fixing a broken arm.

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

Two thousand opioid, fatal overdoses in 2016, in Massachusetts, and it is trending very young.