Settling for Second-Rate Health Care Doesn't Serve Texans

Think of the excitement next month as so many young Americans return to school; and what this legislation does, it would greet them with a big cut in funds to our most disadvantaged schools. I can tell you that in Texas, Governor Perry and…

Let's find a path forward toward our common goal of increasing employment and reducing poverty.

Are there other recommendations that you have that we should consider as we are renewing and reauthorizing the TANF program to assure that more economically disadvantaged people actually move into living wage jobs?

Thank you, Mr. Aos, I notice in your evaluation it looks like as far as child welfare is concerned that the Nurse Family Partnership, the visiting nurse program for low-income families, is way out on top as being the most cost-effective…

Yes, I think reconsidering the work requirements to allow individuals to engage in that longer term intensive skill development that has been shown to lead to higher paying careers that actually move people out of poverty would be an…

Ultimately, Congress and the administration should fund what works so we can deliver better results to those in need.

You are aware that the Federal funding for that program expires in little more than a year...

I thank our colleague from Dallas, Texas (Mr. Johnson) for his leadership on this matter. This spring in another part of Texas in San Antonio, with the committed leadership of Katy Flato, we had our first-ever Bexar County edition of the…

To close briefly, last fall Senator Cornyn hosted a memorable bipartisan dinner honoring Senator Hutchison appropriately in the LBJ Room here in the Capitol, where all of us who are gathered here today, and a number of our colleagues…

In San Antonio and Austin, a public-private partnership, across this Nation, involves responsible corporate citizens, like HEB, working together with local entities to see that there's food security. But without SNAP, they cannot do their…

Forty-five years ago, in a now famous film, Edward R. Murrow, for CBS, produced a program called ``Hunger in America.'' It described 100,000 residents of San Antonio--mostly Latino--who were ``hungry all the time'' and the indifference of…

I am pleased to join the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Reichert) in support of the International Child Support Recovery Improvement Act. We tried to do this just about a year ago. In the last Congress, I coauthored very similar…

A system that accords General Electric a lower tax rate than the people that clean up the corporate board room at General Electric I think is really offensive.

Thirty companies have paid more to their lobbyists than to the United States Treasury in taxes.

If we have a system that says to a company that is looking to invest in either San Antonio, Texas, or South Africa or Europe or Asia that if they invest abroad they will pay nothing on the earnings from that investment but if they invest…

I think we can applaud and encourage that success without maintaining a view that, because they are successful and they are big names, they are entitled to special treatment in the Tax Code not accorded to other businesses and individuals.

Thank you to my colleague from California, who has ties directly to San Antonio and appreciates the importance of this legislation. I do rise in support of the San Antonio Missions National Historic Park Boundary Expansion Act, a measure…

I want to be open to all points of view. My main objection here... is clearly a limitation on the growth of Social Security benefits.

Let me just affirm that Social Security is not adding to the debt to begin with.

Sometimes I get the feeling that for our Republican colleagues the porridge is either too hot or too cold but never just right so long as it is President Obama's administration that is doing the serving.

when it comes to helping the unemployed, our first and most immediate goal should be to find a sensible and balanced alternative to the budget cuts encompassed in the sequestration

H.R. 885 is a bill that would expand the boundary of the park, as shown on the map, by 137 acres.

The Spanish missions in San Antonio are really a unique treasure for Texans and for all of America.

The park is important to the understanding of Texas, and really, of the development of the United States.