There is no more important issue to working Americans than the ability to get and keep a job, provide for their families, and ensure that when their children grow up, they can succeed, too.

However, it is misleading to suggest that regulatory uncertainty has anywhere near the same importance in explaining unemployment as the massive affect of this recession an aggregate demands.

I am encouraged by the President's 2013 budget proposal which includes $8 billion for community colleges.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in complete disgust of the Republican conferees' attempt to include an education requirement as a condition of receiving unemployment benefits. To require people who would otherwise be eligible for benefits to now…

Thank you very much for coming back and thank you for your willingness to tackle this incredibly important issue.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express my concern that Republicans are attempting to penalize unemployed American citizens who do not have a high school diploma. Last month, House Republicans included a provision in the payroll tax cut bill…

Let me thank the gentleman for yielding this brief time for me to respond. Mr. Speaker, I want to join my friend from Georgia, Mr. David Scott, in trying to expose some of the hypocrisy that we are seeing playing out here on the House…

Mr. Speaker, I want to bring attention to a silent epidemic growing in our midst. Right alongside long-term unemployment, the increases in poverty and food prices, homelessness and the steep decline in household incomes is now the shocking…

I think when it comes to prevention and treatment, or certainly prevention and research, that we have not seen the States step up to the level that they have or that governments have in other countries around the world.

I absolutely think it should be multiple agencies.

Mr. Franks' bill and Mr. Campbell, 1174, gives the Treasury Secretary broad regulatory and enforcement authority to implement a licensing program for Internet gambling sites.