Thank you, Congresswoman. Let me also thank you for your leadership as a ranking member of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade for the Energy and Commerce Committee; and your leadership in the area of health care has been…

Thank you so much, Mr. Murphy, and thank you for your leadership as a member on the Foreign Affairs Committee, as well, and your commitment and support to a strong U.S.-Israel relationship, also an important issue to those of us in the…

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…

I never could have anticipated speaking in opposition to the Violence Against Women Act, and it's unfortunate that we've come to this point, but here we are. This comes after more than a year of bipartisan efforts to put together a…

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…

Thank you, Madam Chair. I rise to ask for my colleagues' support for an amendment to protect our most vulnerable constituents--our children. This bipartisan amendment is a simple one. It says that child victims of sexual predators should…

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

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

We understand that compromise and working together is important.

It makes sure that the social safety net is shredded. It makes sure that we end the Medicare guarantee.

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.

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 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 Ryan budget does just the opposite, because it achieves most of its savings by pulling the safety net out from under the most vulnerable.

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 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.

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.

Over the past several months, in hearing after hearing in the Budget Committee, we have heard one recurring theme from our expert witnesses. Chairman Bernanke said it, Director Elmendorf said it, Acting Director Zients said it, and…

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…

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…

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

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…

I was glad to hear some of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle in reference to their grandchildren and the concern that they have about the long-term impact of deficits on their grandchildren's lives.

Would you agree with CBO, who has said that tax cuts, like the 2001-2003 tax cuts for the wealthiest, provide the least bang for our buck in terms of job creation and reducing unemployment?