Mr. Speaker, in the Great Seal of the United States, the eagle clutches arrows and an olive branch. While today's Iran agreement puts the olive branch out first, the arrows remain firmly in our grasp. The safety of all our families in the…

We believe requiring States to spend a substantial--a specific share of their TANF resources on core purposes is essential for improving TANF work programs.

If there are no new dollars, which is the case with this proposal, no additional funds added...

Mr. Speaker, when he first signed into law the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, President Lyndon B. Johnson greatly advanced both education and civil rights. Now, here, 50 years later, the need for Federal support for our schools…

I suppose it is encouraging that this hearing began with Chairman Ryan telling us not to worry about the prospects of a 20 percent, across-the-board benefit cut for disability recipients next year.

this morning's hearing begins to look, in a more sophisticated way, like the standard Republican stump speech, that the only thing that is wrong is that people, poor people, don't work hard enough, and that bureaucrats get in the way with…

the real--the complete statement should be there won't be a 20 percent benefit cut, because we are planning to find some other way to cut disability payments to make up for what would be necessary to avoid a 20 percent payment cut.

likely create the very death spirals that Congress designed the Act to avoid.

they don't respond to economic trouble.

they risk turning back the successes of the safety net and making the work issues worse.

Congress passed the Affordable Care Act to improve health insurance markets, not to destroy them.