Gwen Moore

I want to thank Chairman Spratt for your leadership to secure this needed benefit in the federal appropriation.

Oregon has been hit very hard by the recession.

There is $5 billion available to states and that money is very targeted so that it does go directly to families in need.

Faced with insurmountable odds and cumulative 3-month job losses of 2.1 million in early February, Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

The reality is that it is impossible to have a work-based safety net without work.

Well, thank you, Chairman Spratt and Ranking Member Ryan, and members of the Budget Committee, for participating in this important and timely hearing.

It is pound foolish to think that we can allow the economic collapse of peoples and economies across the globe and expect that we're going to survive.

I do think that it is important for us to develop other means of dealing with this other than sanctioning them, because I understand there is a great deal of misery among the Iranian people.

It is very important, I think, to disaggregate sanctions against a regime that continues to enrich uranium without the sanction of the international energy commission.

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