Lloyd Doggett

If the question is whether tax cuts pay for themselves or only add to our public debt, we have significant experience and evidence.

If the question is whether comprehensive immigration reform will grow our economy, we have significant evidence.

Indeed, when I first arrived here on Capitol Hill, an old Capitol Hill staffer told me to remember that here, in Congress, every Member is entitled to their own facts.

Texas actually has a lot of things that we can teach both other States and the Federal level about those block grant programs.

I think it is really important to renew it. It is not a panacea. But it helps parents be what they really want to be.

I think it is important that we extend the Family Home Visiting Program, Family Nurse Partnership, those types of programs that are about to expire this March?

Unfortunately, one key safety net program, TANF, falls short on this level of success.

I believe we need to have evidence-based programs, but we need to look at the evidence.

Less than 20 percent of the families federally eligible for child care assistance ever obtain any assistance.

I believe we have made steady progress in overcoming the great recession set in motion by Wall Street fraud.

It ought not to be the opening bid. It ought to be the floor in looking at this whole issue.

So a one-time repatriation of the type some have talked about really doesn't provide a good source for transportation or anything else.

Why shouldn't all Members of Congress be able to get access with their secured staff, and take such notes as they may feel necessary in order to record where various trading partners are--or what position they are taking?

I am glad to hear that, but we have not achieved what the Administration said we would have.

That is not practicing transparency, it is practicing secrecy.

Vote for the dream, Mr. Speaker, and vote ``no'' on this nightmare of an amended bill.

This bill puts a big bow on a holiday gift for the Wall Street contributors who get special treatment in the provisions of this bill. Once again, here in the holiday season, it is all about stuffing the silk stockings. These people want to…

Now, I do find it difficult to understand, with its hostility to Christians and brutal disdain for our American values, how Saudi Arabia can be a place for training anyone--certainly no Syrian women learning to drive there. Ultimately, I…

Each year, we do less and less for those who struggle while the gap continues to widen between those who have little or nothing and those who are incredibly wealthy. I believe that poverty should be viewed as a major national problem that…

It has been suggested that the benefit of social impact bonds--that they will help us grow the pie overall in terms of State or Federal funding for these programs.

I think it is a cost-effective program that we need to extend.

In this very committee, we face a situation where we will see major cuts, barring some new budget agreement, in education and social services next year in Federal funding through the sequestration agreement.

I am a little concerned, though, about the practicalities.

I wish we had more Bloomberg Foundations across the country to participate.

I believe we need to look for innovative ways like this.