Should every child, by right, have access to high quality child care?
Should the Government make sure that that happens?
Let us be very clear, and let me not mince words. The way we treat children in this country is an international embarras...
Should every child in this country, because of Federal law, have the right to quality childcare from birth to kindergart...
If you ignore the needs of little children, you know what? They are going to fail in school. And if they fail in school,...
And it is the Government's responsibility to make sure it happens?
We have, at 18 percent, the highest rate of childhood poverty in the industrialized world, and we are all very shocked t...
I believe it is a crime that they are not.
I think you are ignoring, and making it more--you're ignoring the best way to go forward, by simply lifting the cap.
Should we eliminate the cap completely and hold BP 100 percent responsible so that they pick up all of the economic dama...
I would hope that this committee and the Senate will move aggressively to move in a very different direction that the ad...
It is beyond comprehension that you have a oil company making over 5 billion in profits in the first quarter of this yea...
I think we all understand that we are looking at one of the most significant ecological disasters in the modern history ...
I will have questions. Especially on the question of homeless veterans, Madam Chair, Vermont now has on a per capita bas...
Elimination of HUD-VASH Program
I have often felt, Madam Chair, that if terrorists could learn how to make it snow, they could cripple Washington for th...
I think the VA could make a very strong statement on their homeless program by moving into a Housing First model.
There are areas that I see it as being especially helpful in rural areas.