Bill Lee

How do you expect people on SNAP to get a job if you are cutting the very programs that they are supposed to help?

If you worked for more than 20 years of service, you got $1,000; 15 to 19 years, $750; 10 to 14 years, $400; 5 to 9 years of service, $300; 2 to 4 years of service, $250; and less than 2 years of service, $200.

97 percent of the tax law's benefits have accrued to wealthy shareholders and executives while only 3 percent of the benefits have gone to workers.

We need to enact policies that ensure that everyone can benefit from the economic recovery and that everyone has the training they need to get good jobs with fair wages.

This budget request fails miserably in fulfilling that mission. It represents the hollowing out of the Department of Labor and a fundamental failure to govern.

But that was not under this President's policy.

Now the Kerner Commission issued an updated report citing what is taking place now 50 years later as it relates to income and racial justice and inequality.

It is not just unemployment, Mr. Secretary. Black full-time workers earn less than 60 percent of what white workers earn every year.

Let me put this in for the record. Black unemployment is double that of whites at 6.8 percent, which is the highest among all racial groups nationwide.

I want to hear your understanding of why President Trump touted the supposedly low unemployment rate in the black community that he claims is only because of his policies.

Walmart shuttered their doors of 63 Sam's Clubs, cutting 10,000 jobs.

The tax law incentivizes outsourcing. It encourages companies to export jobs by creating a lower rate for multinational corporations to invest abroad.

You can't do more with less; you do less with less.

SNAP is a very important, effective program.

You admit that that was a tax scam, that you do not have the growth to pay for those tax cuts to the wealthiest.

But, sir, $7, $8 an hour people need a little bit of help from their government.

This budget is really shameful. It dismantles our basic living standards that Americans have turned to for decades and pushes millions of people into poverty.

In conclusion, I would just like to say that no woman should have a politician interfering in her personal health decisions. They should be made between her and her medical provider, period. Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to oppose…

This CR does nothing--nothing--to help create jobs, better wages, and ultimately a better future for our children and our families. It is really clear to me that the delay on this bill is because some House Republicans are in Pennsylvania…

I guess we should not be surprised by this approach, since the playbook for this administration from day one has been, as Steve Bannon said early on, that their goal was deconstruction of the administrative state. That is exactly what is…

I would just ask, how do we get funding for more research to address the entire population? That is what I want to know.

I am one who wants to increase NIH's budget in all diseases by extra, by the millions and the billions, because NIH is a lifesaving institute.

Once again, Republicans are determined to balance their budget on the backs of the most vulnerable; to hand tax breaks to millionaires, and billionaires, and corporations; and slush funds for Pentagon contractors. This budget is cruel and…

This should really be a wake-up call to this Chamber to defeat this bill immediately. Instead of ramming through a bill that would push more people into poverty, we should be working to create good-paying jobs and expand opportunities for…

First, I thank the gentlewoman from Oregon for introducing this amendment. I rise in support of it. We have to really let our seniors know that we care about them. My mother passed away a couple of years ago. She was 90 years old. I…