Patty Murray

Your job is to defend veterans.

I am very concerned about your budget for Medical Services. You are requesting barely a 1 percent increase.

It seems to me the right thing would be to do is to ask for a request for this year for the shortfall.

So you have created a huge hole for next year.

Somebody else is going to lose out.

To me, as the daughter of a World War II veteran whose mother stayed home to care for him when he was in a wheelchair, this is absolutely critical and it should go to all eras.

The Federal Government has a moral and a legal obligation to clean up that nuclear waste site.

Secretary Price, you have denied that your budget includes severe cuts to Medicaid for millions of children, pregnant women, veterans, people with disabilities, and low-income seniors.

That is really disturbing to me because performing oversight of the executive branch... is something that all of us in Congress know is an important responsibility.

I am deeply disturbed by this budget in terms of its impact on women.

Under your proposal in Washington State alone over 100,000 women are going to lose access to critical care.

This is just a bad bill for women, and choosing to eliminate Planned Parenthood, which you repeatedly have supported, is widely unpopular.

I really believe that your budget is an assault on women's health.

The bottom line is that this administration's effort to undermine working families' access to health insurance either deliberately or through stunning incompetence is overwhelmingly clear.

You break it, you own it.

It's a constellation of reforms that need to be put in place because there are millions of Americans right now who are unable to gain the kind of coverage that they want.

I think what we need to be talking about in terms of a health system is the constellation of reforms.

It's a yes-or-no answer. Do you...

Well, I'm disappointed, but I have to say I'm not surprised you won't give me a straight answer.

Thank you. We'll all try and comply with that.

Your budget proposals would deny preventive and primary care benefits to millions of women nationwide.

Despite the still escalating crisis of opioid and heroin addiction, it cuts funding for prevention and treatment programs by $84 million.

It eliminates safety net programs like LIHEAP and the SSBG by more than $6 billion.

It slashes public health programs at the CDC by 17 percent at a time when we are facing new and emerging diseases.

It cuts vital medical research at the NIH by 21 percent.