"It is odd but consistent that this Administration's modernization efforts betray the fundamental mission of what they hope to modernize."
"The reality is that most Americans struggle in order to realize the American Dream, which means that what is synonymous with the American experience is hardship."
"We have broken families because of broken systems and broken promises, and, I think, because of a deficit of empathy."
"Census data is used to allocate hundreds of billions of dollars in Federal funding for health care programs."
"We still want answers. And that's exactly why Representative Schakowsky of Illinois and I earlier submitted a letter."
"I think this is the very exact vehicle and forum where this sort of oversight is supposed to take place."
"When Johnson & Johnson asks people to trust them, the FDA should have said, show us."
"What is happening in Haiti is of specific and urgent import to the people that I represent, dealing with the fact that they cannot travel back to the funerals of their loved ones due to the violence; ..."
"A parent is a child's first teacher. My mother did not read me nursery rhymes, but she made sure early on that I knew the words of Toussaint Louverture, 'I was born a slave, but Nature gave me the sou..."
"I find that I have that dual experience often on this committee of comparable pride of our honoring the words of our late chairman in being in efficient and effective pursuit of the truth and simultan..."
"At the very least, we should regulate the use of talc or add warning labels to the products, but, ideally, we need to get this stuff off the shelves."