"Given the tight budgets, it is vitally important that we effectively allocate resources to the highest priority endeavors."
"We know that unemployment remains too high, and income inequality is near historic highs, with incomes for low and middle income workers stagnating or even falling."
"I just want to thank you and the president for that because much of our discussion here since I have been on this Committee has been, how do we look the strategies to lift the 50 million people who ar..."
"Of course, the president clearly sees the link between the morally correct thing to do and the economically smart thing to do."
"It seems like we are getting attacked over and over and over again, and so I am wondering how we are going to pick up the pieces now because we have made so much progress, but I just see this going ba..."
"But the trend, though, is going the opposite direction. I understand what you are saying, but you have cut actually 15 million say from the Office of Minority Health Services."
"This is National Minority Health Month. The Tri-Caucus Black, Hispanic, Asian Pacific American Caucus, we are going to the floor at noon to talk about minority health, ethnic disparities, and the bene..."
"I am really worried that a lot of these efforts are going to go away."
"A lot of the minority physicians are not, and that is the problem because they are not--the exchange health plans don't require the Safety Net providers to be part of these plans now."
"I hope that we are able to discuss what can be done to reach more children with undiagnosed and untreated mental health challenges."
"when we fail to address mental illness, when people cannot access services and there is nowhere for them to go, the outcomes are not positive."