I am as outraged as anyone by the notion that someone who's incarcerated is getting public benefits...

These are crucial steps with bipartisan support, and I would urge Congress to swiftly pass these important legislation.

There is one type of innovation in which these Republicans are truly unexcelled--there is no competition. And that is the innovation in names, in naming these bills. They salute climate deniers and The Flat Earth Society by slashing…

I support a permanent research and development credit to incentivize more research. The question is: How do we pay for it, and how do we ensure that it actually encourages more jobs, leads to more research and more economic development…

There is probably no more critical issue on our national agenda today than this matter with Iran. 151 Members of the House have joined together to encourage the President to ``exhaust every avenue toward a verifiable, enforceable…

All of us who do not trust war as the answer must continue working together to support a peaceful resolution and overcome the bellicose voices whose only alternative is the perilous course of war. We want a strong, verifiable arms accord…

While not signing this particular call for diplomacy, additional colleagues have made clear that they intend to prevent any attempted congressional veto of a strong, verifiable agreement. An agreement not based on trust, not based on…

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 a process?

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 participation rate.

We have to be very careful if we are going to say that everybody has to go into the best job possible.

I think you made some good points, and it doesn't help to get someone out of one dead end and into another.

I worked with Catholic Charities in San Antonio. They provided such important leadership on the needs of our immigrants.

We should quit treating two-parent families differently than we treat single-parent families.

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.

I am concerned about the anticompetitive effects of this bill because, while this money could be used to address the size of our national debt--and that might be an appropriate place for it. Think about the size of $269 billion and what it…

I concur with the gentleman from Connecticut. I yield back the balance of my time.

I also appreciate the help we have received from the Center for Medicare Advocacy. They have had reports, again, from people all over the country being placed in this situation. The hospitals may act in the best interests of a patient's…

The success of abstinence-only programs, you know, it was--you know, those programs have not been proven effective.

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.

We have significant evidence on a program such as Abstinence-Only Education, that it is one of the best ways to increase teen pregnancy, rather than to reduce it.

I have one speaker on the way. If you are prepared to close and he is not arriving, then we will close. Do you have any other speakers?