Bill Lee actually said...

"We have a long way to go to catch up with closing health disparities, based on race and ethnic backgrounds."

"I want to ask you, with the cuts that you are presenting, how are we going to ever achieve parity and how are we ever going to reduce the unemployment and the wage gap in communities of color?"

"So this waiver is going to hurt people who are looking for jobs, and the jobs just aren't available because of the budget cuts in workforce training and all of the other areas and programs that we nee..."

"with this type of a cut, we haven't seen any plan that would show that we are going to make sure that new infections don't emerge and that we are able to get this epidemic under control."