That budget, the Republican budget, cuts $810 billion from the base funding from Medicaid, $810 billion.
It simply adds insult to injury to pretend that deep cuts to food and nutrition programs... will somehow, quote, 'streng...
We will not win the War on Poverty by adopting budget proposals that reverse the modest gains we have made.
So the real question before us is whether we are looking to lift more people out of poverty, or are we more concerned wi...
I must confess I find the timing of this hearing particularly strange.
It is a budget that showers large new tax breaks on the wealthiest in this country while hurting the middle class.
the number I was giving you was for able-bodied adults. Did not include the elderly and kids.
I could not agree more that we should take our existing resources and channel them to programs that work.
I asked him specifically on Medicaid, does he show any significant work disincentive as a result of Medicaid? And his an...
It's time to do the hard work needed to put in place a fiscally responsible budget that adopts the balanced approach rec...
It was a very stark example of misplaced priorities.
Why are Republicans making such deep cuts to programs that help so many? Because their lopsided approach to the budget p...
if you look at the Republican budget, it dramatically cuts, not reforms, it dramatically cuts a lot of those important s...
Helping the East Asia-Pacific region address environmental challenges is essential for preventing future conflicts and i...
The good news about the Helsinki framework is that it is not that intimidating because it is a consensus group.
The jury is obviously out on what is happening in that country, but it is a country that is struggling with civilian lea...
I found this with Vietnam and now perhaps with Myanmar--that they really do want to become more of a legitimate internat...
So we have talked about China, we have talked about Myanmar, we have talked about the countries along the Mekong.
