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.

I believe we need strong investment in graduate medical education, like raising the outdated cap on the number of residents that Medicare supports.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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.