Supplemental Security Income for Children is an important program for the very vulnerable and neediest of the population.
The role of the Federal Government is to aid the most vulnerable amongst us.
I would like to introduce in the record a letter from the Baton Rouge Area Foundation which administered the $100 million Oil Rig Workers As...
We always have a debate in this country on what the definition of a benevolent dictator is, and maybe this falls under that category.
There is an appropriate effort in Congress to direct an open, transparent audit of the Fund.
It seems to me this hearing has two issues in it, and we can't deal with both of them.
quickly, fairly and transparently.
the President's Executive Order creates a new Federal bureaucracy that requires regional plans to be created whether States want it or not a...
There are certain things that the defense budget requires in terms of technological and business capabilities that, if we are not doing it, ...
Sequestration would make that rational evaluation impossible, which is why it must be avoided.
If we're going to fix this problem in the long run and avoid sequestration in the short run, I believe that we must address this from both e...
You cannot look at a budget that is almost 40 percent out of whack in terms of our deficit and say that 20 percent of the budget has absolut...
The industrial base of this country is critical to our economy and obviously defense spending is part of maintaining that industrial base.
the Economic and Fiscal Impacts of DOD Spending on the Commonwealth of Virginia in FY 2008
I appreciate you holding this hearing and this series of hearings that we have had to discuss the impact of defense cuts.
I believe that increasing the amount of revenue that we have available is critical to this effort.
I urge you to focus on those issues that help states--not hurt them.
Like many, if not most, of our members here, I share the view that large, immediate cuts to the defense budget caused by sequestration would...
