These grim statistics add a note of seriousness to these hearings that we hold today.
One of the first items that President Obama discussed with me when I was first selected for this job was that one of his top priorities for ...
We have still youngsters today that don't participate in the School Lunch and School Breakfast Program that need the School Lunch and School...
You fund your priorities. I believe this ought to be a priority.
One of the great opportunities that we have is the leadership of the First Lady on this particular issue.
We obviously would work with Congress if you direct that this is something that is a priority and that you believe that it needs to be expan...
Recently President Obama declared the H1N1 outbreak to be a national emergency.
The Environment and Public Works Committee is the place for a detailed examination of the purported environmental benefits of any climate ch...
an honest cost-benefit assessment requires that we first stop trying to sell this policy as if it will have no cost for Americans
Lack of paid sick days is also a crisis for America's working families.
Almost half of all private sector workers--including 79 percent of low-wage workers--have no paid sick days.
The lack of paid sick days is a crisis for public health that will make the H1N1 outbreak worse.
it will reduce economic growth, and it will reduce jobs.
Skyrocket is the term that President Obama has used about price increases.
It is the responsibility of Congress to weigh the costs and benefits of every policy decision it makes, and the bigger the issue, the more i...
I don't believe our country has ever gone wrong when we expand civil rights. Never.
Every year numerous qualified, hard-working Americans are denied job opportunities, are terminated, or experience on-the-job discrimination ...
This Congress will continue to come back, come back in the future to look at these, and to make sure that we balance these out so that peopl...
