We will not win the War on Poverty by adopting budget proposals that reverse the modest gains we have made.
It simply adds insult to injury to pretend that deep cuts to food and nutrition programs... will somehow, quote, 'streng...
That budget, the Republican budget, cuts $810 billion from the base funding from Medicaid, $810 billion.
It is a budget that showers large new tax breaks on the wealthiest in this country while hurting the middle class.
the proposal that our Republican colleagues in the House have made is that we would, relative to today's sequester, we w...
the Republican budget turns it into a block ramp, and cuts it to a level where it is one-third below the Congressional B...
the number I was giving you was for able-bodied adults. Did not include the elderly and kids.
I have not heard any testimony today that actually goes out to propose specific changes.
if you look at the Republican budget, it dramatically cuts, not reforms, it dramatically cuts a lot of those important s...
But in Parliamentary systems where they can engage all these programs at once, they look at these problems and they say,...
Why are Republicans making such deep cuts to programs that help so many? Because their lopsided approach to the budget p...
It's time to do the hard work needed to put in place a fiscally responsible budget that adopts the balanced approach rec...
It was a very stark example of misplaced priorities.
I asked him specifically on Medicaid, does he show any significant work disincentive as a result of Medicaid? And his an...
I could not agree more that we should take our existing resources and channel them to programs that work.
Can we then stop within the interviews asking for party affiliation?
Let me be very clear. We come today to seek the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God.
This is despite the fact that the committee has already conducted 16 interviews, reviewed thousands of documents, and fo...
