John Yarmuth actually said...

There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.

One of the things that the civil rights movement, I think, taught us was that individual morality is not enough.

Nancy Pelosi, who spoke in this Committee just at the very beginning, said that a budget is a statement of your values.

the more we can do to lift people out of poverty, the better our budgetary future will look.