Jim Clyburn

It is important to protect health equity and the access to affordable healthcare.

The Congressional Black Caucus worked diligently for the passage of the Affordable Care Act. However, this is not enough.

We must continue to invest in people.

We cannot win the future by leaving people behind.

It is necessary to fully fund Community Development Block Grants. It provides the greatest return on investment for creating jobs.

Investing in our crumbling infrastructure will create jobs and help our economy get back on track.

I have introduced H.R. 1124, the Fairness in Taxation Act, which would create new tax brackets for millionaires and billionaires.

Twenty-seven million, 31,000.

Not only do we need revenues, but we need to do it in a fair way.

Over the last 30 years, there has been a dramatic and deliberate transfer of wealth from the middle class to the very, very rich.

The budget resolution must include a substantial job creation initiative to get our economy moving.

However, we believe the reforms could go farther by including a public option that would provide competition to private insurers and reduce the cost of health care for working families and the Federal Government.

We can gain robust and immediate savings also from paring down the Pentagon's budget.

The CPC alternative budget does this by providing for the responsible and orderly redeployment of our troops and military contractors from Iraq and Afghanistan, saving more than $1.5 trillion above current law spending levels over 10 years.

Nothing has been a larger strain on this country's finances than the two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which have now cost us more than $1.1 trillion.

I'd like to use that call for a Domestic Marshall Plan as a jumping off point for my remarks this morning.

They are crying out for a response from us.

I do believe that we are responsible for responding to need.

I would ask the committee to look into this and to see whether or not it makes sense for us to begin targeting resources where the needs really are.

It is about people who are locked and why the gap is continuing to get wider.

This is not about skin color. It is about what I would call 'stressed' communities.

I am here to ask today that we tackle the issue of the widening gap between the haves and the have-nots in our society.

If you cut too fast too deeply, you will slow down a very fragile recovery and threaten to put people out of work.

Yes, we have to reduce our deficits and debt, no doubt about it in terms of our long term economic growth.

When the 1965 Voting Rights Act became law, it did not cover congressional and legislative redistricting. The Fair Housing Law wasn't perfect when it was passed. Bipartisan changes were made to improve all of these measures. I sincerely…