"Clearly, today's hearing was organized to divert attention away from the inability to present policies and proposals that would truly stimulate the American economy and help put all Americans back to ..."
"Yet, by and large, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have been collectively against job training grants, summer jobs funding, community development block grant funding, foreclosure preventi..."
"Today, I continue to support a comprehensive framework that includes reforms to our deportation and detention policies, as well as border security."
"Comprehensive reform is the only way that we will be able to create an immigration system that is fair, feasible, and protects American workers."
"Seven hundred thousand jobs would be lost under the GOP cuts."
"We cannot afford to allow people who have political agendas to divide us."
"A study at the Pew Hispanic Center found that during the current recession, foreign-born workers have gained employment while native workers continue to lose jobs."
"It is very important that we hear from our Commissioners what they discovered about our financial crisis."
"Of course, the purpose of trying to rewrite the causes of the crisis I believe could only serve to undermine the Dodd-Frank Act and return the financial services industry to a nostalgic age of uncheck..."
"There is a fundamental debate that is going on in the Congress of the United States today."
"We believe that we understand and recognize the cause of the meltdown and what brought us to the brink of a depression."
"My colleagues on the opposite side of the aisle are claiming that regulation is a job killer."