Xavier Becerra

We have to beef up your units so you all can find these folks.

The Social Security disability trust fund belongs to the workers who paid into it.

I think this is something we can handle bipartisanly.

Thank you all for your testimony and for helping us on this issue.

None of us wants to see the bad apples. They ruin it for everyone else.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thanks for letting us ask a second series of questions.

I hope we never lose the non-adversarial character of these hearings.

Let's remind everyone that workers earn their Social Security disability protection.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Dr. Manchester, let's make sure we are clear. Eligibility for these benefits.

What we want to do, if we can, on our end, where the problems might be man-made with regard to the disability insurance problem, is flush out those manmade problems.

I thank the leader for yielding. My friends, every single day in America, three women die at the hands of domestic violence. Yet this Congress allowed the Violence Against Women Act to expire more than 500 days ago, every one of those 500…

By direction of the Democratic Caucus, I offer a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 64 Resolved, That the following named Members be and are hereby elected to…

The charitable deduction and the rules governing tax exemption are in need of critical examination.

I believe it is time for us, given this whole discussion of looking at how we invest, through taxpayer dollars, try to look at how we could make this charitable deduction work best for those of you who do some great things.

By direction of the Democratic Caucus, I offer a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 52 Resolved, That the following named Members be and are hereby elected to…

If you buy a house, you pay your mortgage--well, at least under this bill, for 3 or 4 months. If you want your kids to go to college, you take out student loans, and you'll tell the bank, well, you'll pay for 3 or 4 months, and then we can…

By direction of the Democratic Caucus, I offer a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 42 Resolved, That the following named Members be and are hereby elected to…

By direction of the Democratic Caucus, I offer a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 22 Resolved, That the following named Members be and are hereby elected to…

I thank the gentlelady for yielding. If you're in the middle class, shouldn't it feel like you're in the middle of America? Yet the politics of extremism is pushing the middle class to the very edge--the very edge. Our House Republican…

how do we make the Social Security Administration, working with this Disability Insurance Program, be as effective as possible partnering with the business community

It is not easy to qualify for Social Security disability benefits.

The DI shortfall, by the way, is not a surprise.

we have to remember that this is a population that has a disability severe enough that in many cases, as I think Miss Ford mentioned, many of them die within a few years of applying for the benefit.

Severely disabled American workers have earned the right to receive disability benefits and they rely on them.

But our number-one goal should be to make sure that every single American receives the Social Security benefits that he or she earned on time and in full.