Are they right in their concerns? Can somebody comment on the situation of making sure we get clean water to people in this country?

I think it is appropriate that in a Nation which is spending $650 billion on the military, yes, that over a 10-year period we can invest $1 trillion in rebuilding our infrastructure.

I think there is bipartisan agreement that we have not invested in our infrastructure.

I proposed a $1 trillion investment, and at that point that was thought, by Republicans and Democrats, to be a wild and crazy idea.

I would hope very much that on this issue there could be a coming together to address what almost everybody understands is a national crisis.

I strongly opposed the Republicans' efforts to gut the SEC rule regarding transparency for oil and mining industry payments to foreign governments. I hope the American people are paying attention. One of the first substantive legislative…

I think many millions of Americans perceive, as I do, that these are not normal times. We have had a new President of the United States who called a judge a ``so-called judge'' because he dared to disagree with President Trump's decision…

I want to say a few words about the Sessions nomination for Attorney General, but I also want to express my very strong opposition to Senator McConnell's effort to deny Senator Elizabeth Warren the opportunity to express her point of view…

I oppose the Republicans' current efforts to gut environmental protections that put industry profits before public health. In repealing the EPA stream protection rule, Republicans are again choosing to put the health and well-being of…

The wealthiest family in America gets a $52 billion tax break as a result of the repeal of the estate tax.

We must restore faith with the American people and their Government. Sadly, this budget does exactly the opposite.

At a time of massive wealth inequality--this is unbelievable--Trump wants to repeal the estate tax for people who have over $5.4 million in wealth, a $353 billion tax giveaway to the richest two-tenths of 1 percent.

It is an immoral budget. It is a budget that must be defeated by the U.S. Congress.

I am not quite sure how you treat an individual without bringing family members in.

this really is a prescription for more inequality in America.

Sheldon Adelson, who only put $5 million into the President's inaugural program, will get a tax break of up to $12.6 billion.

It has now been 7 long weeks since the Trump administration came out with its budget, and yet our committee has not held a single hearing on what he has proposed.

I am opposed to the privatization of the VA.

There is no question, I think primarily for political reasons, the VA has been beaten up a whole lot in recent years.

every person here wants the VA to do better. I do not think there is a partisan division on that.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this important hearing.

What this is really about--and we should be honest about it--is that people like the Koch brothers, second wealthiest family in America, have spent hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars to get benefits like this.

Poll after poll after poll shows this is exactly what the American people do not want.

I would hope that my Republican colleagues would respect the words of President Trump when he ran for office when he said exactly the opposite.

I believe that what we are going to be looking at are proposals way, way, way out of touch with where the American people are and where they want to go.