Joe Crowley

Training our nation's doctors has long been a shared responsibility between individual teaching hospitals and the Federal Government.

I believe we need strong investment in graduate medical education, like raising the outdated cap on the number of residents that Medicare supports.

I know this Subcommittee is looking primarily at hospital policy issues, and so I am glad to have the opportunity to participate in the discussion.

I hope you will consider this issue as a priority to include. I also hope you will recognize the hurtful impact of cuts to GME program.

If we want to seriously help families find work and escape poverty, then we should seriously consider increasing child care funding as a part of this reauthorization.

There are a lot of improvements we can make to the TANF program. But for too long now, we have just been simply renewing it with short-term extensions.

I am disappointed at what is not in the bill, and namely no new funding for child care.

I have authored the Child First Act to increase the Federal investment in child care, and to close this gap.

Working parents need to know that their children are being safely cared for while they are looking for work or are working.

The child care assistance provided by TANF and other Federal programs is critical.

I want to thank you with the full sincerity--I think I can speak for the entire side of my aisle--for holding this hearing today, and for working in a bipartisan way on the discussion draft that was released last week.

A just wage enables human beings to have adequate access to all the other goods which are destined for our common use.

We have a tendency, as policymakers, to do an all-or-nothing design that we believe potentially... create a disincentive to work.

To me that meaning strengthening, not weakening programs like the earned income tax credit and the child tax credit.

Again, let me thank Mr. Nunes, the chair of the committee, as well as the ranking member, Mr. Schiff, for their support of this valuable amendment. I yield back the balance of my time. The CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by…

I thank the chairman for his support of this amendment as well as the ranking member, Mr. Schiff, for his support of this amendment, and all the Members who have worked on this amendment. I think the amendment speaks for itself. It is…

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 42, after line 12, insert the following: SEC. 336. REPORT ON NATIONAL SECURITY COOPERATION BETWEEN UNITED…

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 29, after line 17, insert the following: SEC. 317. INCLUSION OF HISPANIC-SERVING INSTITUTIONS IN GRANT…

I appreciate the gentleman from Florida's comments on this bill and his support. At this time, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from California (Mr. Schiff).

I know some have tried to dismiss these conditions as just anxiety and backaches. And that simply isn't the case.

So, in other words, the unemployment benefits don't even keep a family above the poverty level, is that correct?

So all these mythical people who are abusing the program, who are gaming the system and committing fraud, which is an actual crime with actual penalties, they are still not even meeting the basic poverty level, is that correct?

Protecting the Safety Net from Waste, Fraud, and Abuse.

I appreciate the comments from the chairman. I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Serrano), my friend and a cosponsor of the amendment. (Mr. SERRANO asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 45, after line 14, insert the following: SEC. 127. HISPANIC OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM IN EDUCATION AND…