Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Americans need to ask themselves, why does an American businessman need a Swiss bank account and secretive investments like that?

Now that the amendment is formally before us, I yield to the gentleman from Alabama.

The government creates unintended consequences when it acts.

In spite of our strong reservations about this gift with no accountability at all to a private entity, Democrats, including me, voted for the Scripps bill.

Maybe I would be part of the ``something'' in 30-something. I did have a chance to meet your fantastic Lieutenant Governor, Nancy Wyman, today at the Jewish American Heritage Month reception at the White House. She is obviously an…

Thank you so much. Thank you, Congresswoman Davis. Thank you for your leadership and for sharing the stories of the important contributions that Jews in the San Diego community in America have made through the fabric of American history…

It was the twins, yes, both of them, and it was a pretty incredible weekend. It was really amazing to, coincidentally, have the B'nai Mitzvah service and ceremony during Jewish American Heritage Month. Their birthday is May 15, and we had…

Thank you so much, Congresswoman Lowey. Thank you for your leadership and your commitment as a Jewish American woman, and for blazing a trail. And thank you for acknowledging my daughter and son's bar and bat mitzvah.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 48, line 20, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $30,000,000)(increased by $30,000,000)''. Page 49, line 4…

The Republican plan... eliminates the social services block grant.

We understand that compromise and working together is important.

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.

Democrats believe that the Republicans through the Romney Ryan budget, their cuts-only approach to deficit reduction is irresponsible.

The bottom line here is we are careening down an unsustainable path. The solution is to work together and take a balanced approach, not take a meat axe to important programs that are going to hurt people unless we work together.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 failure.

For decades we have looked to Medicare and Medicaid with the expectation that the Federal Government would honor its commitment. Now, under this budget plan, Republicans are trying to back out of our commitment to seniors. We cannot go…

Any benefit cut is a serious impact on your life, and another example of how privatization of Social Security would be irresponsible.

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 by your projections, will actually…

Hopefully, the Members that have made those references will go back and take a hard look at their own records, because they have certainly been participants, willing, very enthusiastic participants, of adding to the deficit in recent…