Lloyd Doggett

I think it is vital that we maintain the unemployment insurance lifeline for families who want to work, but have not yet been able to find a job.

Certainly extending a hand to those Americans who have lost a job through no fault of their own and who are out searching for new opportunities is the right thing to do to keep our economy moving forward and to assist millions of our…

In fact, the legislation we are referring to is permissive with reference to these demonstration projects.

It will be a boon to highly paid professionals, private equity firms, hedge fund managers, and professional sports teams. I think they've received enough economic benefit in the past with the Bush tax cuts. We ought to be focusing our…

And as for our seniors, we suggested that getting a certificate to go fish for insurance is no substitute for Medicare. This is about values, about dignity for those in retirement, and opportunity for our young people. This Republican…

The amendments became a part of the original legislation of the Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act.

I would just encourage that you continue to do that. It is difficult to see, while all options have to be on the table, how military intervention there can do anything but make our families less secure.

I would like to see you move more quickly rather than more slowly, and encourage looking at our policy there to find a way to ensure our security, having achieved many of our goals, and assure our security without as broad a footprint as…

I think all of us recognize the potential of the Trans-Pacific partnership, and as with any trade agreement, there are pluses, and there are minuses.

We heard objective testimony that if we extend all of the Bush tax cuts for the next decade, we will have less economic growth in this country, not more economic growth, as their theology maintains. And the testimony we're hearing is not…

There was a legendary Texas House Speaker of this body, Sam Rayburn, who said that it takes a master carpenter to build a barn but any mule, I think he said, can tear one down. Well, it's time that we get together to build a solution for…

I commend the gentleman for his service as our subcommittee chair and on the data issue that will be important in reducing any kind of abuse of public assistance. I now yield 2 minutes to my colleague from the Budget Committee and someone…

Those policies that would place dollars into the pockets of the families that need them the most right now...

I believe whatever label you put on it, what is basically a Medicare voucher system simply shifts those health care costs onto vulnerable seniors...

I think all America would benefit if we were able to return to the prosperity of the Clinton years...

While I think it would have been better to await the full report from the Government Accountability Office, I support those program integrity provisions. I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Davis).

At some point, cuts to hospitals and nursing homes mean that seniors and the disabled will be unable to access the quality care that they need. And this bill's $8 billion cut to preventable chronic disease programs like heart disease and…

This administration has been a leader in trying to prevent the continued efforts of the tobacco industry to addict our children at home.

And you don't expect to see any exceptions or alternative approaches suggested for any individual countries?

So you would expect the same labor standard, the same environmental standard for all the countries?

To get SSI you also have to have a very severe disability, and the Congress in 1996 in the welfare legislation then upped the severity standard greatly.

I am against scams. I think everybody on this Committee is against scams.

Congress should look for ways to support our Nation's most vulnerable children and families instead of painting a target on their backs in the name of deficit reduction.

SSI serves only low-income children with the most severe mental and physical impairments.

However great our Nation's fiscal challenges may be, we ought not to balance the budget on the backs of disabled children.