the deficit should be addressed by enacting yet another tax cut bonanza for those at the top while ripping the social safety net for seniors, people with disabilities, and low income.

I've been working on sector partnership workforce training strategies for 4 years, along with Senator Olympia Snowe.

We are working on WIA. We've been working on it for a long time, even before I was chairman.

too many workers are unemployed or underemployed, and more needs to be done to ensure that all Americans benefit from economic growth, not just the few at the top.

It's hard to see the wisdom of a cut like that when the real unemployment rate really is close to 16 percent in this country.

The cost to society of not doing that, I submit to you, will be 10, 20, 30 times that much.

This case just shocks the conscience. Just shocks the conscience.

Congress and the administration must work together to reduce our budget deficits and restore fiscal discipline.

After a long and difficult recession, our economy is slowly recovering, but too many workers are unemployed or underemployed.

We maintained important investments in employment and training programs, worker protections, and the fight against the worst forms of child labor.

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