Political Quotes

“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 prevention programs, heating subsidies for low-income families, policies promoting diversity in Federal contracting, eliminating the crack cocaine sentencing disparity, eliminating the mandatory minimum sentencing, increases in Title VI funding for public schools, fully funding Pell grant, fully funding the EEOC to police racial discrimination, and reforms in our tax code that would provide for economic opportunity for those who are not included among the Nation's wealthiest top 1 percent of households.”