I believe that if kids learn more now, they're going to earn more later, and that's not just a rhyme. It happens to be true.

I think we can have both a very strong ADA as well as a strong and well-implemented Affordable Care Act.

I have no doubt about your intention. The problem is that we have heard some of this before...

Well, as someone who spent only a total of 1 year as a volunteer teacher in a volunteer program, the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, my placement was in north Philadelphia. I really could have used a program like the one that you described.

I have real concerns and real skepticism, which I know we have talked about.

We don't want to, by making a change, adversely impact or put at risk more folks than have some kind of stress right now.

Increasing the full-time hours to 40 hours a week is a regressive measure that would negatively impact minority Americans.

I won't support it, and I wanted to explore some of it with you in the time we have.

So if we, in essence, help educate a workforce that the private sector needs in order to deal with the human capital requirements in the global economy and, at the same time, help more middle-class families have greater resources to help…

I've tried to be, as a strong supporter of the ACA, I've tried to examine and to support reasonable changes to the law.

Eliminating the employer mandate would not reduce insurance coverage significantly.

Of the top 20 in the world, we are fifth from the worst. Our child poverty rate... 21.2 percent of children in the United States of America live in poverty.

we have not done for our kids is really a national, and I would say, bipartisan failure

I rise to speak about the 50th anniversary of Medicare as well. I commend the remarks of both the senior Senator from Oregon and the senior Senator from Illinois about this 50-year anniversary since President Lyndon Johnson first sent his…

before this Congress ends, I wanted to pay tribute to several of my colleagues who will not be here when we convene next year. Some chose not to run again, and others unfortunately lost their reelection campaigns, but we will miss them all…

I am honored to be able to rise tonight. I will have a longer statement later to talk about the ABLE Act that Senator Burr and I worked on coming through the Finance Committee and talking with Chairman Wyden and Ranking Member Hatch. I…

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If you can, describe or outline some of the potential risks or potential costs of not expediting an update to those standards.

I am grateful for her leadership on this issue and grateful for her sense of urgency because I think that is shared by all of us.

Ensure full protection of all emergency responders whether private sector, public sector or volunteers.

These standards are a way to manage that?

I would ask you both to infuse into your work the same sense of urgency that you have heard here and as articulated by Senator Boxer.

Well, I would hope that more of us would be--even as we are advocates for greater resources in the context of law enforcement...

Madam Chair, thanks very much, and I first want to commend your work leading this Committee.