"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."
"We have seen women in the trades. Across the country the representation is quite low, but in Oregon we have a wonderful organization, Oregon Trades Women."
"Continued efforts to sideline science from the policymaking process at the EPA will have chilling consequences."
"As a member of this subcommittee and this committee, I am certainly not going to argue that a college degree is not valuable."
"I disagree with my colleagues who continue to call for the elimination of IRIS."
"We must work together to invest in services that prevent, not just treat, child abuse and neglect."
"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."
"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."
"a measure of national security, to safeguard the health and well-being of the Nation's children."