I want to thank the gentlewoman from Hawaii for the opportunity to join with her on this because the numbers she refers to is back during the summer--and Speaker Boehner acknowledged this last Sunday on ABC. There was an understanding…

Because they were specifically, as you know, cut off in the rules. The rules of the House, which have existed for so many years, would have given the gentlewoman from Florida, the gentlewoman from Hawaii, or any of our colleagues who are…

For no good reason. That is why it is outrageous that we could be here on this Saturday and that the Republicans have recessed the House until Monday night. They know that this default is approaching. They have outlined no plan to avoid…

You are talking about things like cancer research or someone who is working on childhood disease.

That is one of the reasons I feel that, with every hour that we go through this government shutdown and with every hour that we get nearer to a default--an historic default on the full faith and credit of the United States--we are…

That is correct. The other thing that happens: suppose you have a cafe across the street from a major Federal installation. Suppose you have a dry cleaners or a service station or an auto repair. Your business has fallen through the floor…

That is exactly what I wanted to explore with you. First of all, all of those public service workers, whether they are at work or not at work, continue to face the uncertainty of whether their paychecks will arrive when the car payment is…

There was an understanding, that he acknowledged, reached between the House and the Senate that we Democrats, in order to keep the government functioning, would agree on, for a time this fall, to accept an unacceptable low number that we…

I view that as a real disgrace. This week in Texas, in San Antonio and in Austin, as we attempted to call the Veterans Administration about problems some of our veterans were having, they said they had turned off their equipment and that…

Federal workers, already under sustained attack from the Republican Shutdown Caucus, certainly deserve to have no further abuse, but the approval of this bill is surely one of the more bizarre moments in a truly bizarre…

Thirty-seven of 40 National Park Service workers at the Missions National Historical Park in San Antonio have been sent home because of this shutdown nonsense. I'd like to have them back at work, but what about the 90 percent of the Small…

They come every 17 years. They make a strange and unpleasant noise, and then they shut down. Like those periodic cicadas that trouble different parts of the country, an irresponsible segment of the Republican House caucus has reverted to…

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…

For well over a year, Republicans have forced our country to lurch from one politically manufactured crisis to another. Last year, they cost us over a billion dollars in a manufactured crisis over the debt limit. They began New Year's Day…

This Republican ``let them starve'' bill would undermine what Professors Miguel Ferguson, Stacey Borasky, and Scott Harding recently described in an article as a ``modern antipoverty marvel.'' SNAP, they report, ``improves access to…

19 days, in just 19 days, millions of working Americans can apply to receive premium assistance tax credits to help them get health insurance. These are neighbors who were previously denied coverage, or who were excluded because of a…

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

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.

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…

The majority leader is absolutely right about scare tactics. If you are an uninsured American and you get a diagnosis of cancer this morning or you are hit in a head-on collision this afternoon or you have a child born with a disability…

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.

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

It is always how can we derail it.