Bob Casey

The economy has created about 13 million jobs since the low point for employment in early 2010.

We could have provided early learning to 3 million children at 200 percent of the poverty level and lower.

It is literally a national security issue.

I want to make sure that we continue that success with Feed the Future.

I want to ask as well--I know that Senator Wyden raised the question of the European Union state aid cases and the overall impact because of potential targeting of U.S. companies and what that impact is for American taxpayers.

We really haven't turned wages in the right direction in several decades--by one estimate this past January, 40 years of wage growth amounting to just 9 percent.

I appreciate your answers during the hearing to questions about your ability to remain impartial as FDA Commissioner.

I appreciate what you said in your testimony about the Duke contract as well as your own steps you've taken since being at the FDA on recusal.

One baby is born every 25 minutes with opioid withdrawals, meaning the equivalent of neonatal abstinence syndrome.

Children should not be therapeutic orphans, that is, doctors were forced to give treatments to children with no evidence about the right way to give the treatment.

Thank you for the hearing.

I think it bears repeating how devastating, at least in my judgment, sequestration has been.

I wanted to maybe direct my questions to our first two witnesses, and I say this as representing a state where we have got something on the order of 57 percent of our state is forested.

We need all of the other programs, but helping them to be able to provide for their families and investing in that opportunity is what is important.

You have 3 million more kids living in $2-a-day homes.

What our bill would do would be to set a target of reducing the number of children living in poverty by half in 10 years.

None of us is doing enough on this and certainly not doing as much as the people in front of us.

The poor you shall always have with you.

I think it is absolutely imperative we do not allow the same thing to happen to necessary medical care.

I was struck by that searing statistic from your testimony on page 1: as of 2011, 1.5 million households, with 3 million children, reported cash incomes of no more than $2 per day, up 130 percent from 15 years ago.

The Child Poverty Reduction Act, basically doing what the UK did, which is to set a target and figure out a way to reach the target.

You have to work and act to reduce that number.

As a member of the Senate Finance Committee as well as the HELP Committee, I frequently hear about mental health and the child welfare system.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations... the world's population will reach 9.1 billion.

Some of us had mentioned, as Senator Ernst did, national security.