i am confident that we will indeed build this movement because we've got generals like rosa delauro, valerie jarrett. we have the general in chief barack obama and joe biden and everyone else, and with my partner right here, the nonprofit leader, the president for the center of american progress and my friends, neera tanden. neera. [applause] >> that was great. so, i have to say, what a great partners. we should be able to make a lot of change with this team. and i want to some have for the center of american progress we've been really thrilled to have a fantastic partnership over months and months and months waiting for the conference. valerie at the white is an entire white house team, and the department of labor which has had a fantastic team. valerie is right, we all have stories, everyone in this room, and the people you represent, thousands upon thousands of people have a story. i have my own story, which is that when i had two young children, and i had a son who was a year and a half, doctor was for and have, took a very high pressure job, was a lot of time commitment for the

farr: i yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from connecticut, rosa delauro. three minutes. the chair: the gentleman from connecticut is recognized for three minutes. . miss delawyer heo: i rise in opposition to this agriculture funding bill. budgeting is about choices, and this bill makes the wrong choices for the american people. time and again in this legislation the house majority's chosen to put profits and politics before nutrition and food safety. it puts partisan ideology before impartial science, and the interests of big corporate industries over the needs of families and children. example, for decades our federal nutrition policies have been banked on the principle of sound scientific research, and evidence based decisionmaking. until now, congress has never prescribed the details of federal nutrition programs. this bill circumvents the process for determining the appropriate foods to offer and the supplemental women, infant, and children program, or the w.i.c. package. to benefit industry, the house majority adds white potatoes to w.i.c. despite the advice and fin

you will probably hear rosa delauro have something to say about that on the house side. >> lots to look forward to in the debate. agriculture reporter for "politico." you can follow her on twitter. thank you so much for the update. >> happy to be here. thanks. cred c.d. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] -- [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] >> the house is taking a break from debating amendments to the agriculture spending bill. a round of votes is expected later this afternoon. the chamber expected back at about 5:45 eastern. the house republican conference is meeting right now and the majority leader eric can't already speak to reporters. that's expected at about 4:30 eastern time. he lost his g.o.p. primary last night to tea party challenger dave brat. mr. cantor, there are some tweets about him today, saying that mr. cantor is expected to announce that he's stepping down as house majority leader effective july 31. today house democratic leaders talked about their legislative agenda,

i'm confident we will build this movement, because we have rosa delauro, the chairman and chief, barack obama, and joe biden and everybody else, and we have my partner right here, the nonprofit either, the president for the center of american progress, and my friend, neera tanden. >> that was great. [applause] so i have to say what great partners. he should be able to make a lot of change with this team. i want to say on behalf of the center for american our best and been thrilled to have the fantastic partnership over months and months leading up to the conference. the entire white house team, salary, and the department of labor which has had a fantastic team. valerie is right, we all have stories. every one in this room and the people you represent, thousands upon thousands of people, have a story. i have my own story, which is younghen i had two children, i had a son who was a year and a half and a daughter 1/2, i had a i had ansure job, and employer who saw i was struggling a little bit. she rescheduled meetings around me, made sure she changed her schedule so i could have my respon