Under the Hensarling comprehensive GSE reform bill, he would like to completely privatize.

Government investment in people, education, infrastructure and innovation can create jobs and these jobs pay for themselves and then some over time.

Comprehensive reform is the only way that we will be able to create an immigration system that is fair, feasible, and protects American workers.

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.

Seven hundred thousand jobs would be lost under the GOP cuts.

We cannot afford to allow people who have political agendas to divide us.

As a Member of Congress representing both Latinos and African Americans, I am very disappointed with the majority's effort to pit minorities against one another in a blatant attempt to derail comprehensive immigration reform.

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 work.

Today, I continue to support a comprehensive framework that includes reforms to our deportation and detention policies, as well as border security.

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…

We believe that we understand and recognize the cause of the meltdown and what brought us to the brink of a depression.