"I think you made some good points, and it doesn't help to get someone out of one dead end and into another."
"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..."
"There is no way you could get by on a minimum wage job, is there?"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"If the question is whether human-induced climate change is a serious threat to America, we have significant scientific evidence."