Philadelphians continue to benefit every day from the flow of federal dollars to improve our infrastructure and create jobs.
Our economic future rests on the extent to which all students, especially those who represent America's growing majority, have access to rigorous, college-preparatory classes and excellent teachers.
The U.S. and Europe may have more breakthroughs in neuroscience, but you have to put that in perspective. The U.S. has 350 million people, and there are 28 countries in the European Union. Israel is third behind these countries in its neuroscience developments, but per capita, it is way ahead of everyone.
African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.
The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.
I don't know what this definition of affirmative action is for some.
Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance.
We have major fiscal problems on our hand.
The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.
Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.
There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money of your taxes in the last decade.
But the point you need to know is that no president at war cut taxes $1.5 trillion, like Bush did.
When Bill Clinton was in town, he sent over a balanced budget.
Bush has never sent over a balanced budget.
This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy.
Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures.
But if they want to really think about the fiscal future of this country, then think about how we have moved from hundreds of billions of surpluses to hundreds of billions of deficits.
Democracy derailed is democracy denied.
The threat of terrorism is not stronger than the will of the American people.
Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.
