I think it is absolutely imperative we do not allow the same thing to happen to necessary medical care.
None of us is doing enough on this and certainly not doing as much as the people in front of us.
We need all of the other programs, but helping them to be able to provide for their families and investing in that opportunity is what is im...
What our bill would do would be to set a target of reducing the number of children living in poverty by half in 10 years.
You have 3 million more kids living in $2-a-day homes.
Sometimes we do.
Unfortunately, new regulations are straining the business of continuing to bank rural customers.
Even though some of them have some of the healthiest balance sheets, business models, and relationships in the entire financial sector, the ...
And we hope for a booming economy so they grow into that threshold.
The fact that America no longer launches new community banks is devastating for Americans across the country.
I helped to start a small bank in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania and the western part of New Jersey with the goal of lending to small bus...
Congress and the President attempted to deal with threats to our financial system, threats that were posed by a handful of the largest insti...
The rapid rate of consolidation away from community banks that has occurred since Dodd-Frank's passage is striking given that this regulator...
That really, I think, awoken the consciousness of and the consciences of many people.
I think parents are very, very unaware of the wage data associated with many of our career and technical education fields.
This is a fascinating process to me.
I still don't know how many people the Affordable Care Act is helping.
as a taxpayer, and as a Member of Congress protecting the taxpayers, that seems to make sense to me, you have to test the system and find it...