WIA efforts clearly have positive results, but Federal funding levels are too low to meet the need.

I will strenuously oppose attempts to balance the budget on the backs of our most vulnerable and powerless people in our society.

We must not let these programs erode.

Senator Harkin, your leadership in securing the funding necessary to make that happen is greatly appreciated.

any successful attempt to nullify health reform would be a major blow to our State.

Here in Cedar Falls and across America, there is serious concern about our record-high deficits.

But they rely upon good people like all of you here to give them hope and to give them opportunity and to make sure that the other Jonathan Kenistons out there and the other ones that you mentioned, Dr. Allen... we have just got to make…

They are going to hit Americans right where they live.

The Affordable Care Act plays an important role for families' financial security.

We continue to make prudent investments in education, infrastructure, and biomedical research--the things that will help us, as President Obama put it in his State of the Union address, 'to win the future.'

Thank you, Senator, for this opportunity to testify and for you walking with the poorest members of our society.

We cannot afford to eliminate the tax credits that are helping to make health insurance more affordable for small businesses.

WIA efforts clearly have positive results. But Federal funding levels are too low to meet the need.

We have fought hard in Congress to retain the right and to retain what is a constitutional obligation to direct monies to certain things.

But to just whack it by 50 percent? I don't think so.

House Republicans want to roll back Federal funding to fiscal year 2008 levels.

I hope to have that through our committee around Easter time.

some of the proposals are to make drastic cuts in that, which then would reduce the amount of money in the Pell grant program.