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…

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

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

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.

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