Gerry Connolly

To try to absorb that is massive, just I have to assume disruptive, as someone who managed programs myself.

Are we a 2 percenter in the malarial prevention and eradication program in Cambodia or are we a major player?

Have you given them instructions to absorb a 46 percent cut?

That is really the answer to Mr. Sherman's question.

You don't know what the impact is going to be.

How would you know that?

You don't create a vacuum in which your adversary can readily and smartly and enthusiastically step in.

Donald Trump is no Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan never cut the foreign aid budget by 46 percent.

There was no empirical evidence to justify putting marijuana ahead of the drugs the chairman just listed as a Schedule I drug 50 years ago.

That's why pairing of mental health services and addiction treatment services is so critical.

Donald, this man's a loser. Don't do it.

I won't help you with Donald Trump, but----

We want to be partners.

The deadline is February 1 of next year.

We are developing a strategy now.

We want to see a reauthorization. We're happy to help, but--okay.

I don't presume to speak for the committee, but I think as you can hear, on a bipartisan basis, we're seized with this mission and urgency.

This epidemic doesn't care where you live or what political party you belong to.

We're in the midst of a national public health emergency.

The urgency of the subject, you know, I think demands executive and legislative branch cooperate as much as we can.

I take the deadlines that--the statutory deadlines extremely seriously, and I know what the deadline is, February 1.

Federal regulations have a positive impact on the economy.

Ask the people of Flint, Michigan, if that makes sense to them because if we have learned nothing else from the tragedy of water poisoning in Flint, Michigan, it is that State Governments should not be left to their own devices to enforce…

Does the delegation of such authority ever get stale and expire on its own, even if we don't have a statutory sunset provision?

Well, one could argue that what we are debating today the AUMF has such an implied power.