I wish to thank Chairman Harkin for his superlative service to the State of Iowa and to our Nation for more than four decades.
Good morning, everyone. The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will please come to order.
if we raise the minimum wage to $10.10, we would have 3.6 million fewer people receiving SNAP.
So I am encouraged by that trend. It has gone dramatically the other way in the previous several years.
The Internet has been successful precisely because of a hands-off approach.
I believe that many, if not all of us, share similar goals with respect to the Internet.
I will settle on that. I wasn't sure.
I think that is one of the barriers we have to employment in this country is a resistance to relocation.
Then for the two of you again--and this will be my last question--in your opinion, has there been any widespread anti-competitive behavior w...
I never had an opportunity to ask him a question where he had to answer.
I am going to ask Mr. McDowell to comment on something that was in Mr. Burnham's testimony.
Do you believe that raising taxes on alternative energy and raising their cost of doing business will lead to job losses?
We need to do a better job of at USDA to ensure that states take this program seriously.
We want to work with states in a collaborative effort.
we want to help people move towards self-sufficiency the right way by helping them to secure and maintain jobs.
It is 3.6 million folks who would not need SNAP or as much SNAP if the minimum wage were increased.
I am highly skeptical about the prospects of expansive FCC regulation over every aspect of the Internet.
That's why I've worked hard to strengthen investments in public health preparedness and response capabilities at home.