Let me first thank our Appropriations Committee chair, Mr. Price, as well as the members of the Rules Committee for making this amendment in order. This is a budget-neutral amendment that would increase the funds dedicated to Federal…

When big businesses fall on hard times--you have all talked about this--they can take advantage of the relief that bankruptcy offers.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Washington will be postponed. Amendment No. 273 Offered by Ms. Wexton The Acting CHAIR. It…

I am confused by the comments earlier about people gaming the system because I feel like the student loan system is a giant trap.

I thank Chairman Visclosky for his leadership on the Defense appropriations bill, as well as Mr. McGovern, our Rules Committee chair, for making this amendment in order. My amendment deals with one particular piece of the administration's…

Thank you to my friend, Barbara Lee, for her unwavering leadership on lifting up poverty across this country.

I have introduced a Medicare for All bill for universal health care because I believe this is a human right.

But most of all, I am grateful to you, from the Poor People's Campaign, who are here, bringing the people's voice to the people's house.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of division C (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. _. None of the funds made…

I did get the sense that she would have probably answered many of those questions, but the White House clearly was engaged in on going obstruction of justice and instructing her not to answer.

I called the hearing or the interview a farce because she had White House counsel, her own personal counsel, about six different lawyers there telling her that she could not answer anything.

Let us just imagine a world where we could have corporations who understand that they can only be successful if they are lifting up the communities.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Washington will be postponed. Amendment No. 59 Offered by Mr. Crow The Acting CHAIR. It is…

I think the immunity argument is ludicrous. I think it will get destroyed.

While any president has the right to ignore or act in contradiction to the advice of top government scientists, it is clear that the goal of this ad hoc Committee is to undermine legitimate science itself, which will make it more difficult…

The only people who fail to understand the seriousness of climate change are the Trump Administration and some of our Republican colleagues.

It is crazy to talk about it in terms of a cost, because what it is is a vision.

the White House took the unusual step of refusing to approve the written testimony of a top intelligence analyst at the State Department.

It is our responsibility, as the Budget Committee, to review the issues that threaten our fiscal health and our constituents.

We can't afford to have an Administration that continues to deny climate change, and handicap the agencies and programs responsible for responding to it.

if you really want to know which party cares about climate change, let's look at which party pulled us out of the Paris accord.

The Trump Administration's attempt to bury critically-important scientific analysis by our top intelligence agents is horrifying and dangerous.

A very small number of companies exert a great deal of control over what news and information each of us sees.

Thank you so much to all of you for your testimony, and I hope that the American people watching this understand how important this report is and how essential it is to actually read the whole thing, from front to back.

I hope that the American people watching this understand how important this report is.