the evidence that is usually advanced for the efficacy of work requirements is the welfare reform, the 1996 welfare reform.

We are not going to stand by and watch States discriminate against our children in terms of proceeding to get an education.

If the proposal would reduce funding for a program's benefit or services or reduce the number of people who qualify for benefits relative to levels that would occur under current law, it is a cut.

The women and the girls in this country, we need to be in charge of our own bodies in order to have full, productive lives, not Donald Trump being in charge of our bodies.

my bill, the American Family Act, would give the same full child tax credit to families earning the minimum wage, military families, rural families, families with young kids, all those left behind by the tax bill.

the solution is not less resources, nor is it more privatization.

We will do a hearing or a briefing with Rosemary Gibson, China Rx, so that we can talk about that.

We strongly share that ambitious goal.

We are cutting $920 billion over 10 years to Medicaid, $756 billion over 10 years for Medicare.

I do want to recognize the $50 million increase for pandemic flu.

House Democrats will move quickly to enact a robust package that will fully address this threat without jeopardizing other necessary programs.

You and the President are to be commended for that.

It is about the consequences. It is about what the effect of those cuts are on our children.

On the mandatory side you would take away health insurance from 20 million Americans by cutting healthcare by $1 trillion over 10 years and eliminating the Affordable Care Act and its Medicaid expansion.

I think the one thing that struck me, Professor Edin, when you were speaking is, you know, we all identify ourselves by our jobs.

Kentucky's work requirement was forecasted to force at least 95,000 Kentuckians to lose coverage.

You are prohibited by law from detaining sponsors based on information that HHS collects on potential sponsors during the vetting process.

your push to privatize public education is based, in my view, on a false premise that is not supported by data.

we do have experimental evidence on the efficacy, or lack thereof, in terms of reducing poverty for work requirements.

the Trump administration evaluated the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program and found that vouchers had a statistically significant negative impact on the mathematics achievement of impacted students.

I want to have you tell us what do you expect to do with that.

I was dismayed--actually shocked--with the elimination of the Federal funding we included in the fiscal year 2020 spending bill for gun violence prevention research.

I am particularly concerned about the proposal to move the successful TRIO program from a competitive grant model to the formula grant to our States.

Your budget proposal has eliminated this crucial support for students in high-poverty schools.

I am going to wrestle with this student loan problem because I see it as real issue...