Nita Lowey

This proposal should be dead on arrival.

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

The administration's budget proposal would also completely eliminate the Fogarty International Center.

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

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

We respectfully request that you preserve and enhance the various rural programs under your jurisdiction for FY18.

In my district alone, 76,700 would lose coverage, including nearly more than 5,000 children and nearly 18,000 adults with employer-sponsored coverage. This isn't health reform. It is a political game. Lives are at stake. I hope we vote…

Today House Republicans and President Trump will try to keep a political promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act, despite the plainly obvious and harmful impact this bill would have on hardworking Americans. It is really sad that, after…

It seems to me you make a lot of sense saying, we are not going to be in this business anymore, we want an off-the-shelf system.

There are so many questions, but I must continue this discussion, having been part of this issue of records for the last 5, 6, 7 years.

I have to tell you, as the ranking member, Chairman Frelinghuysen and I go to a lot of committee hearings. But this affects my heart.

We owe it to all current and future veterans to tackle these challenges now, and this subcommittee is committed to achieving that goal.

We as members of Congress, and you as the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, have a duty to provide the best care available to our veterans, who have sacrificed and faithfully served our Nation.

After working 4 years to reduce the claims backlog, it is once again increasing, and the Choice Program will soon run out of money and is in need of reform.

The U.S. has the most rigorous refugee screening process, including biometric tracks, medical screening, DNA testing.

The budget was shocking, disappointing. I can think of many other adjectives.

Dramatic reductions in the President's proposed budget for the function 150 account would undermine that delicate balance.

Your statement was eloquent, so very important, and I think there are too many people who don't take the time to talk about the importance of this account back home.

I want to thank you. And as a strong supporter of the BBG and other similar programs, many of us have had questions about their effectiveness.

Sam Farr used to tap me on the shoulder probably 10 times a day: Peace Corps, Peace Corps, Peace Corps.

Defense, diplomacy, and development are equal legs on the stool of American foreign policy.

It would be unfair, in my judgment, to force New Yorkers to pay for even more, particularly when many infrastructure developments and economic gains in New York benefit the economy of the entire Nation.

No matter where you live or your income level, public broadcasting must be available for every American.

I know many of us sleep better at night in this very difficult world knowing that you are there making decisions.

I am so concerned about the growing cyber threats against the United States' interests and assets both at home and overseas.