I think, where the Congress's inability to act in real time is absolutely penny wise and pound foolish.

We hope that we can work and get funding restored to some of these programs.

It has made it harder, harder, and harder for people working hard to get ahead.

I want to ask you a couple of questions. The first one is, as we have lurched from manufactured crisis to manufactured crisis in this land of flickering lights on Capitol Hill, people at home are doing the best they can to try to build…

It is time for us to start working together to solve this problem.

It ought to be possible for someone who works 40 hours a week to earn a decent wage.

I do not think there is anything that is creating a greater drag on this economy than our own dysfunction.

thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything you've done and for your extraordinary leadership of this department.

Our inability to focus on them and continuing to allow a comprehensive solution to our debt and our deficit to elude us is resulting in our hacking away at discretionary spending that we need to invest in the next generation of Americans.

you couldn't wait for this body to do this work.

Historically, given the varying types of Medicaid coverage levels by State, it has typically been children with serious emotional disturbance, and adults who have been found to be disabled due to a mental illness that have been most often…