"I hope we can work together in a bi-partisan way to improve rather than eliminate services to those struggling."
"I think unless you are a woman, and unless you sit in a woman's place, I think you make some pretty strong statements talking about women not wanting to be married and making a choice to have a baby f..."
"We must strive to eliminate unnecessary duplication and streamline delivery benefits but I hope that the Republican idea of duplicative food assistance programs is not breakfast, lunch and dinner."
"We are sacrificing our future to allow hunger and malnutrition to exist at the rates they do in this country."
"If I did a rewind, if I took some of the positions that I guess you are taking, I wouldn't be here today."
"prepared statement of"
"Today's hearing will not increase government efficiency or value to the taxpayer."
"This hearing, like the other labor policy hearings this committee has held, is meant to provide justification for removing workplace rights for public workers."
"Federal employee unions enjoy few of the rights of private sector unions."
"H.R. 122 seems to be a solution in search of a problem."
"there is an effort in States controlled by Republican Governors to diminish or totally eliminate public sector unions."
"there was no budget savings basis for his effort to rescind collective bargaining for public sector workers."