As a Congress, we have a responsibility to support policies that give all hardworking Americans the opportunity to succeed no matter where they started out.
We are going to wake up 20 years from now and we are not going to be the 19th best educated out of 28 advanced countries.
The increase in profits to GM has not been shared to much of an extent with the workers.
I also want to commend Congresswoman Lee who has been a champion on addressing these issues of income inequality and poverty.
That is a stunning number. And when you consider what we know in the United States what people pay for housing as a percentage of their budg...
the cost of doing nothing greatly exceeds the cost of doing something.
this hearing will enable Congress to better prepare for the wide-ranging impacts of a changing climate.
As a Congress, we really have to deal with this subject. We can't put it off.
And if we were to take the steps that we have discussed in the hearing, deporting large--millions of immigrants right now and restricting ou...
If we don't make sure that brown and black America is as productive as it can possibly be and succeed as well as they could, that white Amer...
the real problem in doing comprehensive immigration reform is that in today's world, Republicans want to focus on border security.