Danny Davis actually said...

"I believe that child poverty is a moral emergency. It is inexcusable that children in the wealthiest nation in the world are growing up in poverty."

"This inability to govern has prevented us from doing our work for three weeks, despite an urgent need to keep our government operating, address the child care cliff, and stand by our allies."

"It is shameful, quite frankly, that this Congress is not taking strong, immediate action to end poverty, using policies proven to work."

"Democrats stand ready. I stand ready to set an aggressive child poverty reduction target and hold ourselves accountable to restore income supports to strengthen families and cut child poverty."