Today's hearing will serve as a first in a set of hearings, focusing on early learning.

Wisconsin is proud to boast strong Head Start programs, serving over 13,000 children in Head Start.

This act will support early learning partnerships by authorizing $4 billion for Early Head Start-child care partnerships.

Mr. President, I come to the floor for the third time to express my opposition to the farm bill--obviously not in total, but to certain provisions of it, particularly provisions I had a hand in writing--and to set the record straight, once…

These plans are enabling many beneficiaries to lower their out-of-pocket costs substantially, and that is particularly true for beneficiaries with chronic illnesses.

Mr. Speaker, it is an honor to be recognized to address you here on the floor of the House of Representatives and this great deliberative body that we are part of. I appreciate the delivery of Mr. Gingrey a little bit earlier. I wanted to…

Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 5 o'clock and 25 minutes p.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until tomorrow, Wednesday, February 5, 2014, at 10 a.m. for…

Mr. Speaker, I see that my friend from Utah has just filed the rule, and I appreciate the gentleman from Utah, not only what he has done here today, but his leadership. I want to take a moment to make the message here as the topic that is…

Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 9 o'clock and 48 minutes p.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until tomorrow, Tuesday, February 4, 2014, at 10 a.m. for…

Mr. President, the conference report for the 2014 farm bill represents a true compromise in the longstanding tradition of the Agriculture Committees. The proposal continues numerous reforms and progressive policies that we created…

Mr. President, I wish to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will meet during the session of the Senate on February 6, 2013, at 10 a.m., in room SD-430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a…

Mr. President, I wish to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will meet during the session of the Senate on February 4, 2013, at 10:30 a.m. in room SD-430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a…

Mr. Speaker, it is an honor to address you here on the floor of the United States House of Representatives and to take up some of the issues that I know are important to you and are important to Americans. I come here tonight to try to put…

The best thing we can do as a Nation would be to fix the law and to fix it together in a bipartisan way.

Thank you. According to CBO, Federal revenues are expected to reach $3 trillion this year, or 17.5 percent of the economy, which is just a little bit below a 40-year average.

Mr. President, I am going to address a small part of this bill but a very important part of the bill, something I have been working on through at least two farm bills. Since the chairwoman of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and…

How long will it take you to get your balance sheet down to $800 billion like it was in 2008?

You are a public institution; you are public servant. Why are you different than any other part of the Federal Government that will make the same information available?