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

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.

Perhaps you ought to expand it.

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.

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

It is a crapshoot, as you said.

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.

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

You cannot have it both ways.

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