I thank the gentleman for yielding. I thank both of my colleagues from Texas for using this as an opportunity, not only to herald this important bill, but as well the importance of health care for our veterans in south Texas. As a sponsor…

These funds are a critical part of the efforts to ensure that children are raised safely in their homes.

These programs have been renewed, and have enjoyed bipartisan support in the past. And I hope that we can work together to extend and improve these services.

In my home state of Texas, the Promoting Safe and Stable Families program has provided funds to help children in my home town in Travis County that are affected by substance abuse in the home.

I am hopeful that we share not only that interest, but an interest in seeing that we put every taxpayer dollar to the most effective and efficient use possible to provide some of our most vulnerable children the services that they need.

I am troubled that the original Republican budget resolution considered earlier this year in the House would have cut the Social Services Block Grant program by $1.7 billion to the states, eliminating grants that would jeopardize…

Our Republican colleagues have chattered endlessly about making hard choices, but most of the hard choices they make today are hard only on the hungry, hard on hungry children, hard on hungry seniors. They've got tremendous cuts to the…

Today's vote represents just one more step in the Republican effort to dismantle Medicare. This contrived procedure, demanding an extraordinary two-thirds vote, right after the Republican majority announces they won't vote for it, is just…

There are some here who believe that we ought to borrow from the Chinese and our other creditors or shift more of our tax burden onto small businesses and individuals so that a few large multinationals can pay even less than the relatively…

This Republican budget does offer a path to prosperity. Unfortunately, it's China's prosperity. For America, they offer a fast track to mediocrity, a descent into economic insecurity. It's the wrong path to global competitiveness. It's not…

I will yield my time, but I will never yield to those Republicans who don't demand any sacrifice from Wall Street and all those big-bonus recipients but do demand that the rest of us pay for balancing their budget. Oppose this Republican…