Marcia Fudge

I thank you for your patriotism, for wanting to participate in this democracy.

The Voting Rights Act was necessary because of this country's long and painful history of not extending the right to vote to all of 'We the People'.

I just wish that at some point we would just be honest with what we are doing.

Are you aware that Alabama and Florida have State tuition tax credit programs and they have shown no improvement in academic achievement for students?

My concern is that you spent so much of your time focused on vouchers, how do we fund religious and private schools?

Madam Secretary, do you realize that it is your responsibility to educate every child in the United States?

Freedom is not free. We learned that during the Civil Rights Movement.

It is the most ridiculous thing that I have ever heard.

We are once again picking winners and losers, which is something that my colleagues complained about for years.

It is just a yes or no, Madam Secretary.

There is a cost to everything we do. Yours just happens to be $50 billion to the Treasury.

The Administration's stated goal of subjecting more working-age adults without minor children to time limits for SNAP benefits is a tactic designed to cause more hardship to the very people USDA claims to help.

The proposed rule change could not be more out of touch with the reality of struggling American workers and families.

If we are really honest with ourselves, and we started to talk to the people who are in these situations instead of believing that they are invisible and they are unworthy and undeserving, we might have a different outcome.

Hungry people are hungry people. People who work are people who work.

Yes, there were jobs in 2006. There aren't today for low-skilled and unskilled workers.

If I didn't know better, I would think that there were no job requirements or training requirements for ABAWDs. There are. It is the law now.

SNAP is the first line of defense against hunger in this country, not food banks.

What is their potential? We have to have confidence in them and do whatever we can in order to promote that.

If Ohio were to lose its current waivers in 35 counties, an estimated about 75,000 individuals would have to have a slot made available to them. The cost associated with that would be about $600 million.

I am deeply concerned that the proposed changes will take away needed flexibility for my state to help communities and individuals who are struggling with unemployment, opioid addiction, and other barriers to work.

The Federal Government should not be impeding states' ability to apply for waivers from work requirements in areas where there is evidence of a lack of sufficient jobs.

The title 'able-bodied' is a misnomer for some of this group, as 80 percent of ABAWDs who were not in the labor force at all over the 2 year window list health and disability as the reason they are not working.

The proposed rule fails to consider the effect of the proposed changes in the face of a deteriorating economy.

Tens of thousands of real people like him are slipping through the cracks.