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.

not a single Republican voted for these anti-fraud funds

we were outraged, quite frankly, that criminal rings stole unemployment insurance benefits during the pandemic

we are all in favor of waiving all non-fraudulent overpayments that came from the pandemic programs

Although children from all races and ethnicities suffer from abuse and neglect at similar rates, Black children are overrepresented at each decision point in the child welfare system.

I hope we can work together to persuade your colleagues to prevent a shutdown and continue the foster care-related programs under Title IV-B.

I am proud to be a part of the long tradition in the Ways and Means Committee of enacting important bipartisan legislation to improve foster care and better prevent child abuse and neglect.

we must be focused on winning the fight, but as the Chair also indicated, leaders, if they are focused on winning the fight, understand you have to take care of your people.

This whole notion that somehow or another we need to be in bed with the same tax rate as the rest of the world is absolute lunacy.

Our mission, our goal every single day should be defending those things that make America great.