It slashes NIH resources by $7.2 billion, 21 percent, the lowest NIH budget since 2002.

You can't say, 'Okay, we'll just turn off for a few years those studies and trials...'

Now, rates of domestic violence against Native women in Indian Country are among the highest in the United States.

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I thank my colleague from Montana. I have hiked in his State before, and it is a wonderful place. Their mountains are a tad higher than ours, but both my wife and I love hiking in the mountains, and I have enjoyed his State.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I'm going to urge the Secretary not to ignore the technological advances we made or the fact that they're going to cost money to continue them.

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 facilities.

It is critical that the FDA and USDA both provide support to farmers in order to build the needed capacity to adapt to this changing food safety regulatory landscape.

I am troubled. I am deeply troubled, Chairman Pai, that under your leadership the FCC has turned from an agency whose primary objective was to ensure competition in the marketplace, to one that has been co-opted by moneyed interests and…

They simply want assurance that the Internet would remain an equal playing field, so they could use the Internet to expand their businesses beyond the Vermont border without fear of prohibitive fees or being squeezed out of special…

It cuts funding for the FCC's core budget by 5 percent. This may pale in comparison with the drastic cuts proposed for other agencies, but it is a significant reduction for an agency whose budget basically flat funded for years.

They want strong meaningful rules to protect consumers and small businesses and startups. They want rules to protect the Internet as an open forum for commerce ideas and expressions.

I will work to craft a budget that truly puts Americans first.

If corporate interests are placed above the interests of consumers--hardworking Americans--that is unacceptable. Americans deserve better.

Thank you, Chairman Hoeven and Ranking Member Merkley, for holding this hearing today to examine the President's fiscal year 2018 budget proposal for the Food and Drug Administration.

In fact, nearly 4 million Americans, 4 million--it is an unprecedented number--called on the FCC to preserve the Internet as a free and open platform for all.

President Trump's abysmal budget assumes savings from the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, and deep cuts to the Medicaid program.

I was so disappointed and alarmed to see the woefully inadequate budget submission from the FDA.

I have heard repeatedly that the FDA needs more money, not less.

The Trump budget proposal for fiscal year 2018 cuts funding for the FCC's core budget by 5 percent.