The biggest user of energy in the country, the single biggest user, is the Federal Government.
People that support taking away collective bargaining rights forget that when people are talking that there is actually less animosity and l...
We can, I think, perhaps more in this Committee than in any other, send a powerful bipartisan message that veterans issues are more importan...
We are having a major fight in Ohio right now, a political fight on the whole idea of collective bargaining for public employees.
The focus of the Administration and a major component of our focus on job creation should be about veterans and what we can do in that direc...
Thanks to an amendment by Senators Sherrod Brown, Bennet, Franken and Mikulski, the Bureau will include a Private Education Loan Ombudsman.
Are you saying that there has been no increase in homelessness or just that there is no increase in the use of homeless shelters?
When you have Wall Street accepting that a certain amount of unemployment is necessary for the proper functioning of the economy, I think th...
Why would you reduce anybody's benefits in a period where people are having trouble making ends meet?
We want to help those who need help and by so doing, you save money.
I have tremendous confidence in your compassion and your quality of heart.
I am very concerned that we don't weaken programs' ability to meet needs either by reducing benefits or cutting eligibility.
We have to make sure that as we analyze these programs in our desire to streamline them, that we don't inadvertently lowering the available ...
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 assistan...
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 a...
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 ...
Since Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty in 1964, Americans have spent $16 trillion on welfare at the State and Federal level.
