Speech
[Remarks as prepared for delivery follow below]:
Mr. Speaker, I believe in the value of work. I voted for the 1996 welfare law because I supported moving people from welfare to work. Our laws should foster job creation. In this important effort, today's bill is not so much malevolent as irrelevant to those poor people.
Because of the way the TANF program is currently structured, only about one percent of the working-age adults across America who are poor are participating in TANF work activities.
Washington-- Today, U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett spoke on the House floor about his bipartisan Medicare Identify Theft Prevention Act to protect 48 million Medicare beneficiaries from identity theft:
Washington-- Today, U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, the Ranking Member of the Human Resources Subcommittee, delivered the following speech on his bipartisan Protect Our Kids Act:
September 20, 2012
Washington—Today, U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett spoke on the House floor during debate on TANF waivers in strong opposition to a Republican resolution that would undermine attempts by states to implement new and better ways to move individuals from welfare to work.
"Every able-bodied person who has the capacity to work, should work yet unfortunately, Republicans talk work for everyone else, but they just don't do much work in this Congress," said Rep. Doggett.
[Rep. Doggett's remarks as delivered follow below]
Reviewing this Republican resolution before us, I found much in its findings and purposes with which I fully agree. "The Tax Code is unfair…." "The tax code violates fundamental principles of equal justice…." "Exclusions, deductions, credits, and special rules make up tax expenditures that amount to over $1 trillion per year...."
[Rep. Doggett's full remarks, as delivered, follow below]
"I have lived through a terminal illness while struggling to get well and struggling to get and keep my insurance. I've been denied health insurance because of a pre-existing condition. I have lived this. It is very real for me. Today I breathe a little better—life is good because now I have hope."
The full text of Rep. Doggett's remarks follow below:
Rep. Doggett's remarks, as delivered, follow below:
"Well Mr. Speaker, our long wait is over. A year and a half after their move to repeal the Affordable Healthcare Act, the Republicans are back with the ‘replace' part of their ‘repeal and replace' slogan. And rather than offering an answer to comprehensive healthcare for thirty million more Americans who need it, all they have to offer today is a tax break for Tylenol. Well I'll tell you, healthcare in this country is more than a two-Tylenol headache and it needs a more comprehensive response.
The full text of Rep. Doggett's remarks follow below:
Republicans are always so much better in the names they give these bills than what's in them. I think in considering this one, we have to look at what it is and what it is not.
It is not an economic recovery measure. A nonpartisan analysis has shown that the economic benefits are considered so small as to be incalculable.
It is not helpful to sole proprietors who do not benefit at all from this bill.
December 15, 2011
Today, U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett delivered the following speech on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in support of the extension of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. While he expressed his support, he also indicated he was highly concerned about the bill's failure to extend the TANF Supplemental Grant program.