This legislation helps us meet that challenge by providing up to $250 million over 3 years in new funding to educate and train Americans for the jobs of the future.
We stand for taking average class sizes down to 18, and putting 100,000 teachers out there.
H.R. 4578 violates the President's pledge to save Social Security first.
We must work even harder to make sure that as our Nation races forward, we give everyone a chance to come along.
How can keeping our economic growth going by preventing this financial contagion from hitting us be a partisan issue?
Our growing economy continues to raise incomes, lift millions out of poverty, and extend opportunity.
I am pleased that the House of Representatives has moved quickly to pass a bipartisan compromise to address a shortage o...
The right thing to do is for us all to focus on what's best for the American people.
The poverty rate fell to 13.3 percent, and while we still have plenty of room for improvement, the African-American pove...
The unique opportunity to save Social Security must not be squandered.
Child poverty has dropped more in the past 4 years than any 4-year period in nearly 30 years.