"In Riverside County, which I represent, there are about only 34 primary care physicians for every 100,000 people, half the number of doctors needed to provided adequate access to care."
"The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act gives all children the chance at living a healthy life."
"His own story is he grew up in a very, very poor environment. He knew what hunger was."
"In considering the reauthorization of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, the question we must ask ourselves is, how much are the lives of our children worth?"
"If I didn't pay my employees enough to be able to come into my restaurant it really had a problem to the larger question that you posed about an economy that is 70 percent driven by consumer purchases..."
"I would argue that is one of the very reasons an update to the overtime exemption is badly needed."
"I would ask unanimous consent to enter into the record, I have got a list of 468 businesses in Wisconsin that oppose the right-to-work law that we just had."
"We know that. We know according to some studies you make $6,000. In other studies you make $7,000 less than states with right-to-work."
"But right-to-work doesn't seem to be having that magical formula of creating additional jobs, at least according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics."
"I really do think this is a good hearing, I must admit a little frustrating as being a freshman."
"If that had happened to someone 20 years earlier in their career, they will be disadvantaged under the proposal that is on the table."