I wish we had more Bloomberg Foundations across the country to participate.

In a time when there are so many valuable initiatives that are limited by budget squeezes and even by sequestration, it is important to be as creative as possible.

In this very committee, we face a situation where we will see major cuts, barring some new budget agreement, in education and social services next year in Federal funding through the sequestration agreement.

It has been suggested that the benefit of social impact bonds--that they will help us grow the pie overall in terms of State or Federal funding for these programs.

Most of us are familiar with the old saw that a conservative is someone who says, 'You go first.'

I think it is a cost-effective program that we need to extend.

Mr. Speaker, who are these young people across America that these Republicans would deny a dream, whose lives they are so eager to disrupt tonight? Maria Rocha is one of them. She came here as a 3-year-old. I have rallied with this young…

Mr. Speaker, a sign: ``Not our kids, not our problems,'' held angrily by a mob, shaken with ``go home,'' to a group of little children who have made a perilous journey to this country. That really epitomizes what the Republican approach to…

Mr. Speaker, I would ask him to yield to the unanimous consent request so we can deal with this immigration problem in a comprehensive manner. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Does the gentleman from Oklahoma yield?

You may call this amnesty. I call it a hope for our country. You can call it conservative. I call it wasteful. It wastes talent that this Nation needs. We need to reject this mean-spirited legislation that would deny rights to these young…

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to bring up H.R. 15, which we have been promised consideration on for so long, to address this crisis. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Oklahoma would need to yield for the purpose of that…