A lot of this could be prevented if you had all the information at the initial hearing, where you'd save money, but it'd also bring justice ...
To get Federal spending under control in the long term, we must reduce spending in the short term.
While I do not agree myself with Congress appropriating $120 million for an insolvent program, it makes even less sense to me to spend $93.5...
However, some of my colleagues on the HELP authorizing committee, specifically Senator Enzi and Senator Hatch have talked to me, and have ma...
I am concerned that the new chronic disease grant program will create a scenario where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
I would think we could all agree that providing the same services to the same population but through separate administrative structures does...
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Let's pump them up. If they're not working, let's find out why they're not working.
In fiscal year 2012, I believe we need to make cuts to our discretionary budget. I don't think we have any choice.
I hope you're committed to that.
We want these programs to work. And we have to measure them. And if they don't work, we figure out something that will work.
We want the end result, don't we?
They should be proud of what they've done.
The unemployment rate is 8.8 percent. When you consider the underemployed and those who have stopped looking for work, the real unemployment...
It was the worst that we've experienced in my lifetime, and probably in most people's lifetime in the whole South.
I want to--I'm not proposing we abolish Job Corps. I'm thinking, in trying to work with you and Senator Cochran and others, to improve it.
We're facing dire circumstances.
if we can get them back in the workforce, it will help them readjust to civilian life, because they've gone through a heck of a lot.
