"I appreciate very much your being here, your testimony, and look forward to working with you. I am particularly concerned about the issue of making sure you have adequate funding to be able to carry o..."
"I want to thank the Chairman."
"But nobody here is advocating an outright repeal."
"the need that they need to expand their staff and their technology in order to do this right, to get it right."
"I am making a suggestion that if, in fact, we want to get this right, it is going to require the proper analysis, which means that I do think they are going to need more resources to be able to do tha..."
"I, too, believe that we need to get our budget deficits under control, but I don't want to do it by balancing the budget on the backs of the poorest of the poor in this country."
"As a United States congressman, I am ashamed to state that hunger is getting worse in this country."
"the increase speaks to the extraordinary need in Massachusetts as well as the hard work by the state to be able to deliver benefits to eligible people."
"people right now need help, and people are not getting these benefits."
"But the reality is, for many, many years, we have been balancing the budget on the backs of the poor in this country."
"the notion that we are not going to help people who are desperately in need because we have a budget crisis, I think, is unacceptable."
"I think what the Congress needs to do is to make sure that there is a safety net and that the safety net works."