"Is this the education I would want for my child? If I couldn't answer yes to that every single time, then I had to figure out something different to do."
"The Department's Office of the General Counsel has advised that the Secretary has discretion to interpret the broad language of the statute as to its permissiveness regarding the purchase of firearms ..."
"You have the authority to say that we cannot use Federal funds to arm teachers."
"When we are talking about gender identity as a choice and it is not innate and it can be changed at any time, we would never question someone's religious beliefs which is also a choice and not innate ..."
"I have seen higher rates of discipline amongst students who identify as LGBTQ because the adults do not know how to respond."
"This would translate to about 26,000 people in Connecticut automatically becoming vulnerable to losing the Federal help they need to simply put food on their tables."
"While this 3 month time limit for SNAP benefits for ABAWDs in theory should only impact adults who do not have children, in practice, it will inevitably and disproportionately impact children and youn..."
"Hunger is merely a symptom of poverty."
"Instead of punishing people for being poor or for being in foster care, we need to further invest in job training and education as a way out of poverty."
"By ripping away a lifeline of an already vulnerable population, this Administration is making yet another unconscionable attack on young people and poor people."
"What are the long-term social and economic cost effects of ripping away this safety net for food security for young people aging out of the foster care system?"
"I have seen that. Because, in my experience, these young people do cycle back into the system."