the truth is when we speak about discretionary spending, the money is in the Defense Department.

So they would see a 20-percent or a 19-percent cut in their income.

We need to substantially increase wages for low- and middle-income workers.

We have got to move aggressively to expand benefits for our Social Security beneficiaries.

I have a feeling that the budget that your Committee majority will bring forth... will not be good for working families.

But the other thing, what we know is when you invest in the IRS--and they can do the audits--we bring in significant amounts of money for every dollar we spend in funding the IRS.

The typical female worker is making $1,300 less than she did in 2007.

Clearly, every branch of Government can and must be more efficient and effective.

I suspect on this issue you are right, there should be a nonpartisan approach.

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The United States today has more income and wealth inequality than at any time since the Great Depression.

My understanding is that for someone who is fully disabled in Holland, they would receive benefits equivalent to about 85 percent of what their previous income was.

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Despite the modest gains of the Affordable Care Act, 40 million Americans continue to have no health insurance.

Nobody is getting rich off of disability benefits.

The situation has become so absurd that the Pentagon is unable to even account for how it spends its money.

it goes without saying I disagree with my good friend from Alabama in terms of his assessment of the climate situation. To my mind, the scientific community, the overwhelming majority of scientists have made it clear that climate change is…

The United States has by far the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country on earth.

The wealthiest people and the largest corporations are doing phenomenally well.

In my view, the debate we are having today is nothing more than a manufactured crisis which is part of the long-term Republican agenda of trying to cut Social Security.

I think the history of the last number of decades is that we have taken from the middle class and the working families of this country and given to the super rich.

What I would say to my colleagues... when folks want more and more money... we do not even know how they are spending their money right now.

Real unemployment is not 5.5 percent, it is 11 percent.

I would hope that nobody here is going to be supportive of the 19-percent cut for some of the most vulnerable people in this country.