Finally we are discussing a free trade agreement that is ready for congressional consideration right now, an FTA that will generate more than $10 billion in increasing U.S. exports, $11 billion in increased GDP, and as many as 277,000 new…

So you have got to be careful where you are poor is what you are saying.

I think that term 'welfare' is what is very misleading.

only one out of four poor children in this country is covered.

If I can get one other question here, the inflated figure he uses, this huge number, God, it just blows your socks off.

I have never heard the elderly and the disabled called welfare cases before.

You mean we allow the States to have different standards for people?

there is a gap. There is not an overlap. It is a gap really that you are talking about here.

What do they have available to them to keep their family together and keep their kids from being hungry?

I think you gentlemen understand what you are being made part of today.

I am not real sure why we are having this hearing.