"Integrating our schools is also part of that, and your testimonies were incredibly compelling in laying out what a difference that makes."
"Giftedness does not know the color of your skin but what does make a difference in your ultimate outcome is whether you can use that giftedness."
"It takes some special kind of heartlessness to cut funding for the Special Olympics."
"We are only funding 14, 14.7 percent, and your flat funding would even cut that further to 13 percent for Fiscal Year 2020."
"I hear you. So let me just say, the flat funding is really falling short for the families that I take care of."
"I would just remind you that investing in schools or students' learning is investing in students."
"I know that many parents are not as supportive as you are. And this is one of the reasons that so many transgender teens become homeless teens."
"the only person at risk right now is my patient Sam. He is the one who is subject to being injured."
"Nobody chooses this so that they can win a race or they can be a football star."
"In Washington, we estimate that more than 43 percent of our state's ABAWD population currently experience homelessness, disproportionately higher than the broader SNAP population in the country at 11 ..."
"For these individuals, the USDA proposal would do nothing to help them find work, while adding yet another obstacle in their way, which is food insecurity and hunger."
"What is really missing from this is a standardized set of data. We need to be measuring the same thing."