Living wages--we are saying folk ought to have a living wage if they work hard.
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.
A moral economy would save taxpayers billions of dollars.
A carbon tax... would raise energy prices? It would raise gas prices.
You can argue it, but you can't argue the fact that it hasn't worked.
People are hungry in this country. We need to do something about it.
I liked what my colleague, Bill Johnson, said at the very beginning about the importance of the father in the household.
We have to ask the question: What works and what doesn't?