Part of this strategy should include the President's call for an increase in the minimum wage.

OMB estimates that consolidating Federal data centers could save us between $3 and $5 billion.

I think it is a very important one as we attempt to improve the Adoption Incentives Act.

I was thinking that the people in my district would really appreciate listening to this discussion.

For almost a decade now, I have advocated to draw on the successes of the Adoption Incentives program in increasing adoptions.

I didn't vote to line the pockets of any executives or to provide bonuses where it didn't appear to me that bonuses were warranted.

the more control individuals have over the use of whatever they give or is extracted from them, the more likely they are to give more.

I think it reinforces for anyone who has any doubt of the impact, that the program, through the utilization of resources that came from the United Way and other places, played a significant role.

Her mother also worked with the Honorable John Lewis when she was 16 years old on the staff of Dr. Martin Luther King.

I think that employers who hire someone who has been unemployed for, for example, more than 6 months, or employers who hire someone such as a veteran, should be rewarded, should be rewarded for taking that chance.

Thank you very much. And thank you, Mr. Chairman. I yield back.

Well, thank you very much. I can see why you have been Woman of the Year, and I suspect you will continue to be Woman of the Year.

I am indeed, as a strong supporter of the arts, I am pleased to welcome Jimalita Tillman.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. And I want to thank all of the witnesses, not only for their patience, but for their testimony.

I have never seen a compromise where everybody got everything that they wanted or liked everything that they got. I certainly don't like everything that I see in this bill, and I certainly didn't get everything that I wanted. But I do like…

Members of the House, I rise first of all to commend a matriarch in my community who passed away a few days ago, Ms. Mavis Donahue, who came to the United States of America from Jamaica. Of course, much of her family came with her, and…

I must thank you for your leadership in raising one of the most profound, most pernicious, and most complex but most elusive issues of our day.

We will all owe you a tremendous debt of gratitude because you will have helped put the spotlight on one of America's most glaring but most elusive problems.

I applaud you for holding this historic hearing to discuss the problem of and potential remedies for the school-to-prison pipeline.

We never saw a prevalence spike like we have seen on autism in Africa.

I had the first hearing ever on global autism.

wherever there is life, I have been told, that there is hope.

some people see things that are and ask, why; but I dream of things that have never been and ask, why not?

I commend you for your efforts and certainly wish you well as you revert back to private life.

the Federal Government has an important role to help understand autism spectrum disorders