Lloyd Doggett

Some of those miscalculations, to some extent, get exaggerated by the fact that so little has been done to update SSI over the years.

There is a serious identity theft issue with the Internal Revenue Service as well.

I think it is very important to not conflate identity theft... with the Internal Revenue Service as well.

If there is fraud, if there is wrongful payment, it needs to be eliminated so that those individuals these programs were designed to serve have their needs met.

All of us who do not trust war as the answer must continue working together to support a peaceful resolution and overcome the bellicose voices whose only alternative is the perilous course of war. We want a strong, verifiable arms accord…

We have to be very careful if we are going to say that everybody has to go into the best job possible.

We should quit treating two-parent families differently than we treat single-parent families.

I worked with Catholic Charities in San Antonio. They provided such important leadership on the needs of our immigrants.

I think that what we need to think about is, one of the things that I think is important is there is a difference between work requirements and imposing work requirements on individuals, and the work participation rate.

I guess I would just begin with Dr. Pavetti and go across to each of you and ask you if you do agree that we need to modify the TANF work requirement to make it more focused on results and not just on a process?

There is no way you could get by on a minimum wage job, is there?

I think you made some good points, and it doesn't help to get someone out of one dead end and into another.

I think that we saw in 1996 an opportunity to change welfare, move welfare to work.

I guess what concerns me is you have been doing that 4 or 5 years and we have no specifics.

During the next decade, TPP would have no measurable impact on real GDP here on our economic growth.

I am concerned about the anticompetitive effects of this bill because, while this money could be used to address the size of our national debt--and that might be an appropriate place for it. Think about the size of $269 billion and what it…

I concur with the gentleman from Connecticut. I yield back the balance of my time.

I have one speaker on the way. If you are prepared to close and he is not arriving, then we will close. Do you have any other speakers?

I also appreciate the help we have received from the Center for Medicare Advocacy. They have had reports, again, from people all over the country being placed in this situation. The hospitals may act in the best interests of a patient's…

The success of abstinence-only programs, you know, it was--you know, those programs have not been proven effective.

The goal is to terminate, cancel, and cut, which seems to be the approach taken in this unfortunate Republican budget.

What would be the effect on the inequality gap that this country has already, and on those poor families, if we make those type of cuts in the budget?

There is a new report out this morning from the Center for Budget and Public Policy Priorities, indicating that the safety net lifted 39 million Americans out of poverty in 2013.

We have significant evidence on a program such as Abstinence-Only Education, that it is one of the best ways to increase teen pregnancy, rather than to reduce it.

If the question is whether human-induced climate change is a serious threat to America, we have significant scientific evidence.