Gwen Moore

I think we're going to see a lot of immigration to this area because these Great Lakes are a great, hidden secret.

I think that families and kids need, particularly since we have such a stingy Child Tax Credit.

There is millions of dollars left on the table that families and kids need.

My only proposal was to have a more generous phase-in. If you are going to require people to work, why not allow them to have 40 percent of the credit after the first $2,500 of income. That way, someone who was working and trying to meet…

And it incentivized them to work. Ms. DeLAURO. That is right. It is because they wanted to denigrate working folks. They say these corporations and these folks are the richest one-tenth of 1 percent who cut coupons, that is the work. They…

For childcare. Ms. DeLAURO. Childcare was one of the biggest issues, because then it allowed people to go to work.

As you mentioned, I had a proposal, a compromise. Ms. DeLAURO. Your amendment. Go for it.

We pushed more kids into poverty. Ms. DeLAURO. That is right. The kids have gone back into poverty, and it is preventable, as you pointed out. This is preventable poverty. We know the answer and we have refused to take that answer and move…

I thank Ms. DeLauro for putting together this Special Order. Mr. Speaker, I felt really compelled to come to the floor because 1 minute last night during the tax debate did not seem to be an adequate amount of time to explain why I…

Do you all remember when our good friend, Mitt Romney, talked about the 47 percent of the takers? This bill locks in the principle that we have takers and makers. We have $600 billion of permanent tax cuts to the wealthiest people, and yet…

Today I am pleased to comment on H.R. 3058, the Recruiting Families Using Data Act. There is an undeniable shortage of foster care placements in America, and an even more drastic lack of foster families with individual foster parents that…

This report highlights a trend of child welfare systems failing to find permanent families, forever families for young people.

I thank Chairman Larson for holding this Special Order on the importance of enhancing Social Security. Mr. Larson talked about how things have not changed for the last 80 years since Social Security has been in existence. I will tell you…

What we are generally talking about is dark money.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and thank our witnesses for appearing today.

Outreach to them politically, not leading them toward a particular candidate, is this the speech that we are--we have talked about today that is supposed to be, you know, at the pinnacle of corruption?

I just want to share with the committee, and again, I want to look forward to working toward this fix...

I just want to say I really think it is important for us to draw a line, and that is why I asked the question that I asked, you know, so that schools are not just summarily punished for free speech.

And I do think that we do have laws. I am going to make inquiries about title 6 and what the enforcement mechanisms are for that.

I think it is extremely important that we preserve people's right to petition their government.

I urge my colleagues to support this en bloc amendment. I would end with a question asked by Jenna Gormal: Will we invest in prevention measures, housing, economic, and racial equity, commonsense firearms regulations, body autonomy, or…

I thank the ranking member and chairman for their leadership. Mr. Chairman, my amendment is simple. It is amendment No. 26, and it would increase funds for the continuum of care grants under the McKinney-Vento Homelessness Assistance…

What message does it send for us to expend government resources running after, you know, Joanne Smith, who got $1,500 she didn't deserve and may not have even known that she didn't deserve it?

We are against fraud and abuse. We are against taxpayers footing the bill.

I wish I could go on.