"there is room for TANF to provide support that is currently not providing to some of the agencies that are doing the work."
"Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. And I, too, thank the witnesses for being here."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I want to thank you for holding this hearing about the continuing decline in working-age men in the labor force."
"My heart breaks for the people in Texas and Louisiana struggling to recover from Hurricane Harvey, and I look forward to working with you on ways our subcommittee can help in the recovery as well."
"I see every day the structure barriers to work that face low-income men in Chicago, especially African American men."
"In Chicago, the unemployment rate for African American men was 21.7 percent in 2015, more than triple the national average."
"In 2014, nearly half of African American men between the age of 20 and 24 in Chicago were disconnected from both school and work."
"I said this is un-American."
"I certainly agree that globalization is a fact of life. And we must be strategically prepared to market successfully whatever products, whatever businesses that we have to other countries."
"I agree that NAFTA has been good to agriculture."
"The U.S. agriculture sector, including food manufacturers, is deeply concerned about the potential erosion of benefits under NAFTA."
"I live in Chicago, Illinois, and my hometown has the largest concentration of companies that process sugar-contained products made in our country."