Marcia Fudge

The Ryan budget is not fiscally or morally sound. It fails the test of even a budget.

I believe that apprenticeships are a good way to create career pathways and improve an individual's earning potential.

Child care is a very important issue in this country for working people, in particular especially for poor working parents.

You have a great deal of turnover--it is a possibility for a great deal of turnover?

I thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I thank you all for being here today. Thank you for your testimony.

One of the worst things I think you can do to a young person is admit them to a university for which they are unprepared to succeed.

Now, some of us are committed to righting these wrongs. Unfortunately, comprehensive immigration reform and the DREAM Act remain stalled in the House.

These are students who are educated in our schools, who pledge allegiance to our flag, and who yearn for the ability to work towards the American Dream.

Youth who are here getting a good education and good training are much less likely to be involved in what the Children's Defense Fund calls the cradle to prison pipeline.

With the bipartisan reauthorization of the Perkins Act, we must guarantee equal opportunity to participate in and benefit from the CTE programs.

Well, certainly I disagree.

Policymakers have a serious responsibility to ensure student loans increase opportunity, not limit future success.

We are the job creators. The federal government is creating the jobs.

It is nothing, to me, more than just politics.

I am concerned about what we are doing here today.

The salaries of adjunct faculty ought to be determined not by whether they have outside employment or other sources of finances.

If they don't do it for the money, why do they take the money?

'stand your ground' laws eliminate all responsibility to retreat and peacefully end an incident.

Proponents of 'stand your ground' laws often allege that these laws deter crime. However, the opposite is true.

You cannot have it both ways. Either the Justice Department is over prosecuting persons who buy guns illegally in States, and if they are, then they should also be over 'stand your ground' laws.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, the FARRM Act, which is H.R. 2642, reauthorizes Federal farm, rural development, and agricultural trade programs through fiscal year 2018, or 5 years. However, H.R. 3102, the Nutrition…

I thank the Chair. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Maryland (Ms. Edwards).

It is my privilege and pleasure to yield 1 minute to our Democratic leader, the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi).

Would you tell us how much time is still left in debate. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Hastings of Washington). The gentlewoman from Ohio has 13\3/4\ minutes remaining, and the gentleman from Oklahoma has 7\1/2\ minutes remaining.

I just want to say that, in Mr. LaMalfa's district, 10 percent of all households are on SNAP. I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Heck).