We must do everything we can to maintain and strengthen these programs.

the racial divide is compounded when funding streams for hands-on, short-term education and career training are cut.

Today I rise in strong opposition to the establishment of the panel to investigate Planned Parenthood. The panel's clear partisan aim is to take down Planned Parenthood, an organization providing quality, affordable health care to millions…

You are making it seem, to me, that you are doing them a favor by hiring them and then making them work a lot of hours and not paying them.

the very people that you all represent, low-income people--they are the ones who need it the most.

I guess maybe I am one of the few people that really lives in the real world here.

It is supply and demand. That is just basic, simple economics.

It is a penalty on employers who work their employees excessive hours.

730 days; 17,520 hours; 1,051,200 minutes; 2 full years since the Supreme Court ruled section 4 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 unconstitutional; 2 full years without voter protections and full access to the ballot box. Since the ruling…

you are helping them in one respect, but you are holding them down in another.

Thank you, Dr. Bell.

Thank you for what you do for making agriculture such a priority, and thank you for educating so many students.

I also sit on the Education and the Workforce Committee, and we just passed out of committee a bill that is going to cut K-12 funding, which is going to make this problem worse.

You, if no other institution does, recognizes that there is talent in a lot of these young people and that all they really need is an opportunity to succeed.

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I want to thank my colleagues, Congressman Payne and Congresswoman Kelly, for leading the Congressional Black Caucus Special Order hour tonight. Mr. Speaker, if you have not noticed, the people of this…

Today we find ourselves on the House floor yet again debating H.R. 5. After several months of delay, the majority party has yet to realize that this bill is not in the best interest of America's children. We all agree that Congress must…

There is no proof anywhere that being on public assistance discourages work.

The average person has no clue what the value of their benefits are.

The health of our children should be a top national priority.

That is what we do. We are legislators. We make laws and we change laws.

I thank you. And we will do all we can to try to make it better. And trust that we have the ability to do it. We just don't have the will.

It was this body that created the sequester which most of us believe today was not a smart thing.

Just as there is a federal role in ensuring every child has access to a quality education, no matter where they live, what they look like or their family's income, there is a federal role ensuring every child has access to healthy and…

Maintaining quality standards for child nutrition programs is not only the right thing to do, but it is what American families overwhelmingly want.

I think that what we spend on feeding kids in this country is a great value, especially since we spend about $3 million per hour on war that we have never authorized.