In a few weeks, transportation security officers, Customs and Border Protection, and Border Patrol agents with very devastating furloughs and cuts are jeopardizing the national security of this Nation. Today, we can make a decision by…

I thank the gentleman for his leadership, and I certainly thank the Budget Committee for the work that they have done. I'd make the argument that clearly we have a dilemma in focus and commitment and direction. I call the other budget the…

When you look at the tax rate under President Clinton, that was 39.6 percent, and we created 20.8 million jobs. The Republican budget is a jobs killer. Then you have where we had a 35 percent tax rate, and you lost 580,000 jobs under…

When you have a preschool program, when you have programs that transition women out of their homes after raising their children and into jobs, when you have a program that allows young people with a college degree to get a job, when you…

I thank both of my colleagues. I thank the gentlelady and the manager of this rule. I vigorously rise to oppose this rule, the underlying bill, the Republican proposal for a budget. And I really do speak from the heart, because when you go…

$5 trillion in surplus was extinguished in the last Republican administration. It had been created by President Clinton. The Affordable Care Act will help provide the health coverage that is needed by millions of Americans. I rise today to…

I thank the gentleman. It is important to support the Democratic alternative, which streamlines and improves the coordination of training programs, which puts the dollars in community associations that are there on the ground. Madam Chair…

I thank the distinguished ranking member of this committee, and I thank the floor managers. I particularly thank Mr. Hinojosa for his long service on workforce issues and about higher education issues to the proponent of the amendment…

I thank the gentlelady for that astute assessment. When I give these various points, women are disproportionately placed. Many of them are heads of households, many of them are senior women. Many are going back into the workforce because…

I thank the floor leaders for their hard work, but I have another explanation for where we are today. My colleague before me indicated that flexibility is important. It means that we, your Representatives, are listening to you. But I'm…

Let me thank my friend from New York, Congresswoman Maloney, for her leadership on economic issues particularly impacting women, for the persistence of her introduction of the Equal Rights Amendment, long overdue, that we all join in to…

They take all the good things that, might I say, the Democrats have worked on and can really be defined as balanced and fair and utilize it in a budget that is absolutely lopsided. And I thank you for having us on the floor to explain to…