Darlene Hooley: “one of the things we talk about all the time is how important education is. And what this budget does, the Democratic…”

last month the Democratic Congress showed the commitment to expanding health care coverage to millions of children who are currently uninsured. In our budget for the upcoming fiscal year, we included a $50 billion funding increase for the…

Thank you, Chairman Gordon, for giving me time to speak on this important and crucial piece of legislation. I also want to applaud you for your leadership on this issue, and the expediency that you moved this through committee, along with…

last year I held over a dozen town hall meetings throughout Oregon about the new Medicare prescription drug program. And what I heard is it is overly complex and too expensive. But it doesn't need to be. Lifting the ban that prevents the…

I grew up in a family where if we gave our word, we kept our word. We did not break our promise. And this budget is full of broken promises. I want to talk about just one of those today. There are many, including for veterans, No Child…