"We can, I think, perhaps more in this Committee than in any other, send a powerful bipartisan message that veterans issues are more important than partisan politics."
"Thanks to an amendment by Senators Sherrod Brown, Bennet, Franken and Mikulski, the Bureau will include a Private Education Loan Ombudsman."
"I have often said that the welfare system particularly says to the single mom out there, don't get married, don't get a job, have more kids and you get more money."
"I just want to echo too that I have had the opportunity to visit one of the Second Harvest Food Bank centers and do appreciate the work they do."
"In March, the Government Accountability Office released its first annual report on duplicative and fractured Federal spending."
"If able-bodied adults know there will come a point where they will no longer be eligible for the benefit, in this case, it was cash assistance, it influenced what they did."
"The single, strongest cause of poverty in the United States today is the lack of marriage."
"The first piece of legislation I got passed as a member of the Ohio General Assembly was time limits for able bodied adults receiving cash assistance."
"Since Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty in 1964, Americans have spent $16 trillion on welfare at the State and Federal level."
"Agriculture is still, as it is for most of us, the most important, largest industry in our State."
"I mean, it is kind of like you do not want to rock the boat."
"The goal is to be seen much sooner."
"There was no one, through the DOD or any VA or any other, your unit, nobody that--because you were still with a unit, technically."
"I understand, also, when your mom--I know your folks, they wanted to come down and they did not have a checking account and the DOD requires, for reimbursements for travel, to have a checking account."
"We can get our heroes the care and coverage and treatment that they need."
"I would appreciate you letting us know what it is, and if we are having a similar situation like Tim, we can continue to try to work through that."
"I mean, Jim, you hear these stories. Colonel, you are hearing these stories. I mean, what is up? I mean, where is the breakdown and what can we do?"
"So basically, there is a complete lack of communication----"
