Marcia Fudge

Most people on food stamps who can work do work.

This country knows that we are more than a billion dollars in debt as it relates to funding pensions.

So I think that we are going in the right direction. And I would just say to you that the next time somebody reports to you with an opioid problem tell them that our prayers and our thoughts are with them.

A lot of our doctors' offices have become drug dealers. Am I right?

I think that one of the things that we learned from the crack cocaine epidemic and the war on drugs was that a strong law enforcement approach that does not also take seriously the importance of a public health perspective and the need for…

Either you care about these kids or you do not.

We talk about mental health is the problem, but we defund mental health treatment.

Praying doesn't make it any different.

I am really surprised because we all know that the Department does not have a stellar record of civil rights.

We are about to pass a tax bill that's going to continue to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

I think we all realize that we live in a time where corporate profits and income and equality are higher than they have ever been.

And that is catastrophic.

So we really know that there is some urgency. It may not be 2025.

Tell me what the economic benefit, if you know, would be if we reduce benefits to a level that people can't even live on.

So you need us to act. OK. That's No. 1.

I agree with our chairman that we haven't done this in more than 30 years. It is time to do it.

I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on H.R. 3441. Let's get back to fighting for the people we were sent here to serve.

And certainly if you addressed things like mental health, you would probably even see a smaller amount of violence in and around the centers.

An appropriations letter that I helped lead to support Job Corps. It is signed by 133 Members of this Congress from both sides of the aisle.

And thank you all so much for being here today.

It was very productive, very insightful, and I thank you all.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. And thank you for this hearing today.

The Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations Program and the Small Watershed Rehabilitation Program are important tools in our conservation toolkit.

We are very clear that TrumpCare really is a plan that benefits the young, the healthy, and the wealthy, and sort of punishes significantly the sick, the poor, and the elderly.

It just seems as though it just goes along with what happens here every day, find a way to give rich money more and make poor people just be poor.