Gwen Moore

It is a crapshoot, as you said.

I can tell you what the alternatives are to having $1,000 a month to pay for decent daycare.

I am a huge fan of child support.

What it means is that the cost of daycare in 2012 terms, $1,000 a month, $1,500 a month, depending on the age of your child, is so great that work does not pay.

I would say that if we really want to encourage work, things like the Earned Income Tax Credit, things like providing child care, things like providing food supplements, encourage work...

I can guarantee you that the 4 million people who are now receiving TANF would storm the Capitol and demand welfare reform.

What we don't want to do is make sure people get just enough to get by and then provide disincentives for them to work.

I once had a job and begged my supervisor not to give me a 50-cent-an-hour raise, lest I lose daycare.

I do want to commend you, Madam Chairman, for the reforms that you have made in the money market funds, these reforms.

I am glad that we realize that taking care of children is work.

You do not have to graduate from the Wharton School of Economics to understand this chart.

You cannot have it both ways.

The Swap Data Information Sharing Act of 2012 would make U.S. law consistent with existing international protocols by removing the indemnification provisions.

Transportation. There is a transportation prohibition against--we have communities in Wisconsin that provide public transportation, and you have to have public workers collective bargaining agreements in place in order to get the transit…

The goal of the gainful employment regulation is unclear and the logic supporting it is quite fuzzy.

If they are not doing the right thing by students, we do not want them in the system.

Basically I think an awful lot of States are antiunion, and, in my opinion, when they are antiunion, they are actually antiworker.

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We have said that FVPSA keeps the lights on for these programs, and it has always done a great job. The beautiful thing about this program is that the reauthorization authorizes more activities to help us better treat children, in…

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I know he shares my concerns about the problem of invasive species in ballast water, and I sure look forward to working with him on another bill to address those concerns more specifically.

The way we administer TANF is very haphazard as a safety net versus how we administer other safety net programs

Averages are not a good thing. They are damn statistics.

I guess, just having listened to the four of you, the conclusion that I have come to, looking at these charts and graphs--and correct me if I am wrong--is that basically we have a kind of a safety net for people who are unemployed, who…