The Environmental Protection Agency should rely on the best available independent science to inform Federal policy.

I think the real key is making sure that we have a path for everyone.

Continued efforts to sideline science from the policymaking process at the EPA will have chilling consequences.

Congress has the moral obligation to expand and improve the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act for the new challenges facing our children, families, and communities.

We are committed to taking bipartisan steps toward a Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act that our children desperately need and deserve.

We need to make sure that state agencies can work quickly and collaboratively with a broad range of protection and support services for all children, no matter where they are.

We must work together to invest in services that prevent, not just treat, child abuse and neglect.

We must continue to strengthen child nutrition programs and protect the progress we have made toward providing all children with the nutritious food that fuels their health and their futures.

Under the president's budget proposal, roughly 1.3 million children would go without free school meals.

I want to just note that Representative Stefanik and I have been working on and continue to work on a Child and Adult Care Food Program bill.

Unfortunately, yesterday the President made clear that he does not share these goals.

The United States is a wealthy country. We have the resources to reduce hunger and food insecurity.

Investing in these programs is an investment in the future health and well-being of our country.

a measure of national security, to safeguard the health and well-being of the Nation's children.

As Co-Chair of the House Oceans Caucus, I know that the health of our natural resources and marine resources is critical, and I'm advocating for investments in research to predict and adapt these challenges.

I recently reintroduced the bipartisan Coastal and Ocean Acidification Stressors and Threats, or COAST, Research Act, with Representative Young, also the other Co-Chair of the Oceans Caucus, Representative Pingree, and Representative Posey…

The consequences of inaction on climate change will be serious and swift.

The science is clear. ... consequences of inaction on climate change will be serious and swift.

Climate change will increase the risk of unhealthy air quality.

Today's hearing on persistent gender based wage discrimination addresses the very injustice that is facing millions of working families.

Closing the wage gap is an economic imperative. It's good for working families and it will help lift families out of poverty.

Most importantly, we heard how Congress can provide workers with the tools they need to close the gender pay gap and achieve wage equality by passing the Paycheck Fairness Act.

By addressing the problematic loopholes in current law, by empowering workers to better detect and combat wage discrimination and by creating mechanisms for better pay data transparency we can restore the original intent of the Equal Pay…

Today, women earn, on average, 80 cents on the dollar compared to white men in substantially equal jobs.

With this legislation we have the opportunity to disrupt a national cycle of discriminatory pay that keeps too many women and families in poverty.