Bill Lee: “I want to thank the gentlewoman from New Jersey for yielding, but also for her tremendous leadership on so many issues…”

“I want to thank the gentlewoman from New Jersey for yielding, but also for her tremendous leadership on so many issues, including as a champion for women and women's health and reproductive health care, and also for this important discussion tonight. {time} 1915 I just want to mention that I serve on the Budget Committee, and you mentioned a nominee, Congressman Tom Price of Georgia, for Secretary of Health and Human Services. Once again, we see President-elect Donald Trump making recommendations of those individuals who want to dismantle the safety net and dismantle health care within the agencies that they are going to run. This is a very, very troubling development in terms of these cabinet appointee nominees. I note that--and many know--President-elect Trump ran one of the most divisive and prejudiced campaigns that we have witnessed in modern history. Since winning the Presidency, he has nominated billionaires to serve in his cabinet, proving that he will govern just as he campaigned. Also, he has nominated individuals who want to dismantle, for the most part, the agencies that they will have jurisdiction over. Another example is his choice for Secretary of State, which Congresswoman Watson Coleman mentioned, and that is Rex Tillerson.…”