As of this past January, the unemployment rate in Rhode Island stood at an unacceptable high 10.9 percent.
The budget is a powerful indication of our priorities as a nation.
Let me be clear, we do not have to abandon Americans in poverty or fail to invest in working class families to reduce our deficits and pay d...
We cannot reduce our deficits simply by cutting food for hungry children or stripping our schools of computers and new books.
We cannot and we must not balance the budget on the backs of our most vulnerable.
We must come together to lift up the millions and millions of Americans who are working full time, but are still living in poverty.
We must immediately address the chronically unemployed who have grown by 441% since 2008 by providing them with the emergency funding to ext...
I was honored to get to know Don and quickly came to respect and admire him, particularly his commitment to the continent of Africa and glob...
I, too, want to compliment the sponsor of this amendment ... I think it is really important that we at the same time raise this goal.
I think this is an issue which the President and the administration are taking very seriously and remain fully engaged in as they monitor th...
I look forward to hearing your testimony and really learning how we can continue to improve this process.