"We understand that compromise and working together is important."
"Democrats believe that the Republicans through the Romney Ryan budget, their cuts-only approach to deficit reduction is irresponsible."
"Sequestration would effect 1.5 million low-income kindergarten through 12th grade students who would be affected by harmful program cuts in Title 1."
"It makes sure that the social safety net is shredded. It makes sure that we end the Medicare guarantee."
"It is critical that local leaders be given the necessary tools to start planning now, so that our communities will have enough time to prepare for these life-altering effects."
"And that is because a block grant, you are giving a finite amount of money. You are saying this is what you have. Do with it what you will."
"the Ryan budget does just the opposite, because it achieves most of its savings by pulling the safety net out from under the most vulnerable."
"The fact that TANF is a block grant actually, in my view, makes it all the more important that food stamps retain its entitlement structure and be that floor under the poorest families."
"Having gone through an exercise myself on trying to subsist on what it would be like if I were on a food stamp budget, I can attest to it being extremely difficult, if not impossible."
"We've got a ways to go. We need to keep pushing. But what's really bothersome to me, Candy, is that it almost seems like my Republicans colleagues in Congress and Mitt Romney are rooting for economic ..."
"Our colleagues on the other side of the aisle talk about how they want to reduce costs for seniors, but it is hard to see how they really mean that when we know that the Affordable Care Act, at least ..."