"But don't you acknowledge the fact that taxpayers simply cannot reorganize their affairs quickly enough when you increase tax rates?"
"I agree with Senator Collins's call in September 2010 for OPM to change its calculation of Postal Service pension fund payments."
"I think the challenge that we really have is to figure out how to make crop insurance work better"
"The 51 percent requirement is a political decision. It has nothing to do with the marketplace."
"I'm profoundly disappointed, in fact angry, at the Bureau's budget for South Dakota projects in particular."
"Our job was to take this enormous national tragedy and try to learn from it."
"Well, thank you, Chairman Spratt and Ranking Member Ryan, and members of the Budget Committee, for participating in this important and timely hearing."
"Oregon has been hit very hard by the recession."
"I want to thank Chairman Spratt for your leadership to secure this needed benefit in the federal appropriation."
"The reality is that it is impossible to have a work-based safety net without work."
"Faced with insurmountable odds and cumulative 3-month job losses of 2.1 million in early February, Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act."
"Averages are not a good thing. They are damn statistics."
"the way we administer TANF is very haphazard as a safety net versus how we administer other safety net programs"
"I guess, just having listened to the four of you, the conclusion that I have come to, looking at these charts and graphs--and correct me if I am wrong--is that basically we have a kind of a safety net..."
"there is $5 billion available to states and that money is very targeted so that it does go directly to families in need."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and Ranking Member Collins, for affording me the opportunity to testify, for having this historic hearing, and for your leadership on the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obl..."
"We lost an engineering professor to another university that did offer domestic partnership benefits because of his feeling that the lack of those policies was unjust."
"There is certainly nothing more American than ensuring that people have equal job opportunities and are paid fairly for a full day's work."
