I urge Congress to please take hold of this and make it happen.

I think if we could find a way somehow or another to prevent individuals from becoming drug addicted because about half the individuals who end up prison are there because of some drug related activity.

And I think that is one of the reasons we ended up calling this activity 'Second Chance,' because in many instances, unless individuals get that employment opportunity, then they are totally frustrated.

I think that those programs that can result in an individual being able to find employment after everything else is said and done...

They are very good. They work extremely well. And I think they are worth their weight in gold.

I want to express real serious appreciation for the evolution of the interest and the concern that is being expressed relative to the whole question of prison reentry.

After-tax income for the middle segment of the population has been roughly stagnant for too long now.

The effect of the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts, in my district, something like 95 percent of the people living in my district get an average tax cut from the 2001 and 2003 cycle of somewhere between $45 and $50 a month.

the one thing that I would make a comment, I think some of those tax professionals have never actually run a factory

I am very pleased that the President's budget invests in higher education, with increases in the Pell grant and making the American Opportunity Tax Credit permanent.

We are searching for--the phrase 'middle ground' is tried, it is over used.