The growth gap between this economic recovery and other recoveries is significant and intensifies our federal spending a...
The American People are demanding it, and I thank you for setting a good beginning for this Committee.
It is my feeling that we didn't need to do so for two reasons.
the responsibility for those failures is shared by many: States who did not do their part; an Administration that has no...
I believe in the value of work. I voted for the 1996 welfare law because I supported moving people from welfare to work.
I don't believe, though there have been some spotty successes, that that law has begun to fulfill its promise.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
We have already let one program, the supplemental grants under TANF, expire.
I would appreciate some follow-up on this because clearly there is a concern.
It is languishing, and we are coming up on 3 years.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and Mr. Langlois and Mr. Greene, thank you both for being here today.
Let us see that it is implemented.
It has been almost 3 years since this was signed into law. It is important stuff.
It is important that we make some progress: I will tell you what.
As I understand, the last report was in 2006.
It is so important for us not to let someone who is such a hero who helped bring to justice this mass murderer of Americ...
And how do we make sure that any equipment, especially the lethal equipment, ends up in the hands of the bad guys?
We don't need the program. We don't need it. It is not that it is a bad program.