My concern is, there has been some press reports that the Administration has given guidance to maximize the pain in the sequestration to dem...
Well, I appreciate it. I understand my staff has been in contact with your staff, and I understand that you may not be able to do a waiver b...
I have a church in my district called the Union Baptist Church. It has had a permit for a cemetery since 1954.
I think a lot of Americans are very concerned right now about the exploding participation and cost of the SNAP program over the past 4 years...
The impact of the furloughs alone has been estimated somewhere around $10 billion.
It hurts the integrity of the program because we want to see the people who need the help receive it.
What my question would be and what I think has concerned a lot of people is with that out there and if that is--if these numbers are wrong, ...
I think it is important that Congress protects the integrity of the nutrition program so that they can serve those who need assistance.
When you look at the savings for taxpayers, $90 million saved over the course of 3 years because of the way that we are going to manage our ...
I think everybody at this dais realizes the importance of this program for the people who need it.
What I would like to do at this point, we will go recess for the vote and then come back...
But it is happening. It is happening right now. It is in the law.
I know you love the country and know a lot about the military. So we have some real opportunities, I think, in the years to come and some re...
I think it's unimaginable that if we go to zero that every other country in the world would go to zero.
But now it is getting to the point where we can't staff every program that we have at the requirement that we would need.
There was no provision in the BCA agreement to raise taxes.
I'm concerned that our partners will look to create their own, and this is the very definition of proliferation.
We tried to find efficiencies. We did, we think, find efficiencies, that we could kind of wring out some savings in the committee.
