Lloyd Doggett actually said...

"To condemn President Johnson's war on poverty as a failure is to ignore the many who never engaged in fighting that war."

"I would love a report at the end of the year to show that if every one of these bills are adopted, that one person got out of poverty this year in America because they were adopted."

"There is only one major concern about that and about what we are not doing on child abuse here, and that is that talking about it, passing changes without approving necessary resources to get to the p..."

"Time after time, not only in Texas, but across the country, we see the price that is being paid for our failure to deal effectively with child abuse."