When you dig another hundreds of billions of dollars--or maybe $1 trillion--into debt, it provides an excuse for many of those who don't believe in those programs to say: Gee, we would love to help you with education for your children…

Mr. Speaker, certainty, we are told, is the key factor here--first words from Chairman Ryan in support of this bill. I think the first certainty we have here is the knowledge that this bill is part of a package that, approved through…

I think it is really important to renew it. It is not a panacea. But it helps parents be what they really want to be.

Less than 20 percent of the families federally eligible for child care assistance ever obtain any assistance.

I think it is important that we extend the Family Home Visiting Program, Family Nurse Partnership, those types of programs that are about to expire this March?

Unfortunately, one key safety net program, TANF, falls short on this level of success.

Texas actually has a lot of things that we can teach both other States and the Federal level about those block grant programs.

I believe we have made steady progress in overcoming the great recession set in motion by Wall Street fraud.

I believe we need to have evidence-based programs, but we need to look at the evidence.

So a one-time repatriation of the type some have talked about really doesn't provide a good source for transportation or anything else.

It ought not to be the opening bid. It ought to be the floor in looking at this whole issue.