Senator, kids can't do their homework, which kind of crystallized it for me.
Here is what we have. We had a special unemployment program set up for the pandemic, the worst crisis in 100 years. And a lot of things went...
If corporations were doing their job, we wouldn't need a Department of Labor, but you need one in the United States of America.
I want a Department of Labor that is fighting every day for workers, not as some have characterized it.
We are trying to do everything we can to phase it out, to get rid of it. It is not good for our workers, not good for workers with disabilit...
I want to phase it out and to make sure that people with disabilities have a fair shot in the workplace.
To see people who blew up this deficit so that the wealthiest people in America could have tax cuts... that makes no sense to me.
we are going to be with you every step of the way until all of this is fully implemented.
I think whenever we entertain any of this we have got to make sure that we are getting value out of whatever we are proposing.
We are facing, in this country, also, not just a hunger crisis but a nutrition crisis.
I appreciate your leadership, and Senator Braun's, with the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health.
I am concerned about proposals to limit this.
From my point of view, you know, we are living in the richest country in the world, and our level of childhood poverty is criminal.
We reduced hunger in the United States by 30 percent, and we did not add a single bureaucrat to the Federal Government to do it.
This work requirement has been in place since 1996, and was passed with bipartisan support, including that of Senator Joe Biden.
In February, Chairman Wyden and I released Left in the Dark, an investigative report that tells the story of older adults and people with di...
Each and every one of those people are Americans, and they should have the same access to vital programs.
I want to be part of the future. I want to be part of something better.
