Gwen Moore

This being 'low-hanging fruit.' Low-hanging fruit, of course, being proxy language for the Bank being low-hanging fruit in pursuit of a larger goal of really dismantling any kind of governmental assistance.

I struggled to understand how this debate had become so dispatched from the reality of how the Bank operates.

I feel really compelled to address some of the mischaracterizations of the Bank.

Would it be catastrophic to our economy?

Someone has to start taking responsibility for that, because here we are, and things are coming back, but it took a long time, and a lot of people did lose their homes.

I still don't like putting 'Dodd' on there, mainly because all of the headaches or an awful lot of the headaches that we have have come about because of the 'Dodd' part of it.

I would like to remind my colleagues that with the poll numbers that are out there, we are not liked by anybody, so maybe we should all retire.

I see where the money goes, I see what the money does, especially in the smaller nations that need an upper hand.

It's important we raise the minimum wage to $10.10 and why it must keep up with inflation.

A minimum wage of $10.10 would bring me closer to that goal.

As I see it, there are two main hallmarks of 'reservation shopping'--when a tribe seeks to go a long distance from its homeland or existing Indian lands, and when a tribe chooses a casino site for obviously commercial or market…

I agree with her totally when she says that she is concerned about the welfare cliff: when we provide benefits to folks, and then as soon as they get up to a certain point, they are no longer eligible for welfare benefits.

I do think that notions that, you know, having two jobs or getting married do not necessarily work for, quote, unquote, 'lifting' people out of poverty because people are working at minimum wage now, and they are making 61 percent of the…

I have greater expectations of rich people, too, that they do not cost the Treasury, over three years, $27.3 billion for tax breaks for executive compensation costs that they never pay.

I am concerned about women becoming a permanent underclass because of this work first notion.

It is an absolute untruth that the welfare reform programs were successful.

There was a sincere effort to try to make sure that we did something to promote transparency.

These concerns have been echoed by regulatory officials and policymakers globally, including by representatives of the European Parliament.

I want to thank Chairman Garrett and, of course, Ranking Member Waters for holding this important hearing on municipal finance.

Perhaps you ought to expand it.

I couldn't afford to lose Medicaid. It is a benefit, and if the government wants to help people, they should.

No, sir, I can tell you that they are not. But I want to stipulate, Mr. Doggett, that welfare recipients are not stupid.

I would submit that people don't work just for their self-esteem or for their dignity. They need to make enough money to be able to pay the rent and put a Barbie doll under the Christmas tree at Christmas.

The title of this hearing, 'How Welfare and Tax Benefits Can Discourage Work,' is at best a misnomer, and at worst is just fallacious non-sequitur.

You are just trying to figure out if you have to work and it is not--and if you don't work it is not because you have poor character.