"I am as outraged as anyone by the notion that someone who's incarcerated is getting public benefits..."
"I think all of us agree our safety net programs have to reflect our values."
"These are crucial steps with bipartisan support, and I would urge Congress to swiftly pass these important legislation."
"There is a serious identity theft issue 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."
"Some of those miscalculations, to some extent, get exaggerated by the fact that so little has been done to update SSI over the years."
"I think it is very important to not conflate identity theft... with the Internal Revenue Service as well."
"I worked with Catholic Charities in San Antonio. They provided such important leadership on the needs of our immigrants."
"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 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 ..."