Lloyd Doggett

What we have to do is end the hammerlock of the ``shutdown caucus'' in the Republican Party. {time} 1815 When the Speaker finally lets a majority of this House, a bipartisan majority of Republicans and Democrats, vote on continuing the…

Thanks to each of you for your testimony. Secretary Hearthway, I was particularly interested in your comment just now, that we can act fast and stop the bleeding, and that states can act fast on this, as well.

Indeed, my question is why the Department of Labor has not already done something about it.

Unemployment insurance provides critical assistance to workers who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own, and are actively looking for work.

I don't know how someone who is involved in long-term incarceration can be actively looking for work.

The folks that I represent, the working families from San Antonio to Austin, they deserve to have some assistance. We have provided it to them with guaranteed rights. Some are in effect now, and some are about to go into effect. Don't let…

It is always how can we derail it.

The alternatives being offered to the American people to Obamacare is really Nothingcare.

And if you are working at a lower wage job, you are entitled to a premium tax credit to assist you in getting health insurance that you have not been able to get until now.

Settling for Second-Rate Health Care Doesn't Serve Texans

Are there other recommendations that you have that we should consider as we are renewing and reauthorizing the TANF program to assure that more economically disadvantaged people actually move into living wage jobs?

You are aware that the Federal funding for that program expires in little more than a year...

Thank you, Mr. Aos, I notice in your evaluation it looks like as far as child welfare is concerned that the Nurse Family Partnership, the visiting nurse program for low-income families, is way out on top as being the most cost-effective…

Yes, I think reconsidering the work requirements to allow individuals to engage in that longer term intensive skill development that has been shown to lead to higher paying careers that actually move people out of poverty would be an…

Let's find a path forward toward our common goal of increasing employment and reducing poverty.

Ultimately, Congress and the administration should fund what works so we can deliver better results to those in need.

To close briefly, last fall Senator Cornyn hosted a memorable bipartisan dinner honoring Senator Hutchison appropriately in the LBJ Room here in the Capitol, where all of us who are gathered here today, and a number of our colleagues…

In San Antonio and Austin, a public-private partnership, across this Nation, involves responsible corporate citizens, like HEB, working together with local entities to see that there's food security. But without SNAP, they cannot do their…

A system that accords General Electric a lower tax rate than the people that clean up the corporate board room at General Electric I think is really offensive.

I think we can applaud and encourage that success without maintaining a view that, because they are successful and they are big names, they are entitled to special treatment in the Tax Code not accorded to other businesses and individuals.

Thirty companies have paid more to their lobbyists than to the United States Treasury in taxes.

If we have a system that says to a company that is looking to invest in either San Antonio, Texas, or South Africa or Europe or Asia that if they invest abroad they will pay nothing on the earnings from that investment but if they invest…

I want to be open to all points of view. My main objection here... is clearly a limitation on the growth of Social Security benefits.

Let me just affirm that Social Security is not adding to the debt to begin with.

H.R. 885 is a bill that would expand the boundary of the park, as shown on the map, by 137 acres.