That is a huge number. 800,000?
They are private jobs.
Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
none of this matters if, at the end of the day, it does not result in benefits to our constituents.
the retention rate is not what I would like for it to be, and one of the main reasons why it is not is because the kids ...
At the end of the day, the greatest affirmative action program yet invented is a good, solid education.
A lot of people think the kids are just not bright. They don't have the money.
So many have lost jobs in this recession, and as CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf told this committee, a large number of t...
We have an empathy deficit. He's been saying this long before he became President.
Sometimes $25,000 is worth $10 million because it acts as a bridge.
I just believe with all my heart that we can do better.
That's not the spirit of this country. That's not the country that I grew up in.
There's money that's flowed through the CDFIs, which has helped community development.
I just refuse to believe that we cannot help these Americans who go out there every day, do the right thing.
With proof of tens of thousands of dollars in party donations spent on limos and private jets, even a bondage-themed nig...
I had one of the most interesting experiences about three weeks ago in Baltimore in my District where we hired 50 police...
We want, again, every single American working.
Frankly, no matter how many hearings we hold it will not be enough, because there are 14.9 million unemployed Americans,...
