"It slashes NIH resources by $7.2 billion, 21 percent, the lowest NIH budget since 2002."
"I am worried about the budget. You know, this affects all of us."
"You can't say, 'Okay, we'll just turn off for a few years those studies and trials...'"
"This budget makes it even worse, deep budget cuts."
"We are not looking for a one size fits all, but we want to have the remedies we had in the Violence Against Women Act that we all voted for to be there."
"For more than 50 years in States across the Nation, including my own of Vermont, the Land and Water Conservation Fund has been an important funding source for State and local outdoor recreation facili..."
"I am deeply concerned that this budget cuts public safety and justice programs at the Bureau of Indian Affairs by more than $36 million from the fiscal year 2017 enacted level."
"Now, rates of domestic violence against Native women in Indian Country are among the highest in the United States."
"I think this budget actually--proposal--and I realize we are cutting all over the place, but this fails in all these areas. I think it is going to endanger our Nation's natural and cultural resources."
"We added the LGBTQ community, we added Native Americans, and we added the sexual trafficking of children."
"I think you know that on this subcommittee there is a lot of bipartisanship and a commitment to protecting our Federal lands and sometimes increasingly fragile natural resources."