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it had a countercyclical role and, very importantly, the rigorous evidence shows food stamps raises the nutritional quality of poor children. that this a clear fact when you look at the evaluation evidence on that. and those children [inaudible] so, therefore, a rise in food stamps somehow proving that obama has been a failure is simply another falsehood, in my view. the earned income tax credit. the report does have a positive paragraph or two on the earned income tax credit, then it talks a lot about the fraud and the irs, we need to be much stricter combating the fraud. i have no problem with that except we have one problem, the irs has been so demonized by house republicans in the last six or eight years and funding so dramatically cut that it s hard to give them another unfunded mandate to do this work. the juxtaposition of those comments strikes me a little bit. there s a lot written about the marginal tax rates, you know i m going to need a little more time. ....
while congress stays out in the district. yorks a tweet from new congresswoman louise slaughter. i had a wonderful time meeting with medical students at the university of rochester to talk about health issues facing congress. michigan senator gary peters jumping into lake here on to view some of the wrecked ships. we will play the video. there he goes. aving into lake huron in wetsuit. a couple had led from politico. state department s order to review 15,000 clinton e-mails for potential release. the article says the federal judge today ordered the state department to review for potential release of nearly 15,000 previously undisclosed documents related to hillary clinton s use of a personal e-mail server. preaching another headache for the democratic nominee. creating another headache for the democratic nominee. another headline, donald trump flip-flopping on immigration. his surrogates pushed back against the idea that the republican presidential nominee is soften ....
groups. you will get the people that are looking for the handout coming into the office with far less frequency. that enables you to focus your energies on those in need of aid. it also means there is less abuse of the taxpayer. there we go. in welfare reform, we basically had two goals. the first was to establish work requirements, not just to a game aid to families with dependent children, but also work requirements for food stamps. secondly, and most importantly, to deal with the problem of out of wedlock childbearing and increase the number of children born inside marriage. those were important. i think we made some modest progress on both of those fronts. certainly not everything we could have done. this is going to be a very familiar chart. you saw one version of this. this is the temporary assistance with needy family caseload. this goes back to the time of the korean war. this is essentially the same data he was presenting. what we can see is that for a 55 year ....
seniors, trying to figure out how to pay for their prescription drugs or put oil in their tank, so there is certainly quite the range as far as interest around the district. host: you are also the only jewish republican member of the house. is that significant, in your opinion, and how? rep. lee zeldin: there are issues that i care very deeply about. you speak up, and you talk about who are america s friends, and who our enemies are, what our foreign policy should be as relates to defeating isis. isis happens to be about 18 miles from the syrian border with israel. how is our approach with syria and iraq and afghanistan, and, of course, the nuclear talks the rising tide of anti-semitism around the world, including right here in the united states, and this is starting to become more prevalent on college campuses, and around the world where some cemeteries are being converted to all muslim cemeteries without even any indication as to what they will do with jewish remains. ....
senator sanders: my fellow americans, this country faces more serious levels today than in any time since the great depression, and if you include the planetary crisis of climate change, it may well be that the challenges we face now are more dire than at any time in the modern history of our country. and here is my promise to you for this campaign. not only will i fight to protect the working families of this country, but we are going to build a movement of americans who are prepared to stand up and fight back. [applause] senator sanders: we are going to take this campaign directly to the people in town meetings, door to door conversation, on street corners, and in social mediums. this week we are going to be in new hampshire, we are going to be in iowa, and we re going to be in minnesota. that is just the start of this campaign. [applause] senator sanders: let me be clear. this campaign is not about bernie sanders, it is not about hillary clinton clinton, it is not ab ....