Committee Hearings, TANF and Employment Training
This page contains testimony given before Congressional committees related
to this issue. Note that many organizations giving testimony before committees
also have statements and information available on their own webpages. That material
is available under organizational statements.
This page contains all abstracts from hearings, but only selected transcripts
released electronically by the relevant committee.
Abstracts:
Testimony:
- Carl
Suter, Director of the Council of State Administrators of Vocational Rehabilitation;
House Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education; March 22, 2001
- Sharon
Daly, Vice President, For Social Policy; House Banking and Financial Services
Committee; August 1, 2001
- Sharon
Daly, Vice President, For Social Policy; House Budget Committee; August 1,
2001
- Ron
Haskins, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institute; House Budget Committee; August
1, 2001
- Bruce
Stenslie, Director, Ventura County Workforce; House Education and Workforce
Committee, Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness; September 12, 2002
- Martha
Davis, Legal Director, Now Legal Defense and Education Fund; House Education
and Workforce Committee; October 16, 2001
- Lashunda
Hall, Wisconsin Works Participant, Opportunities Industrialization Center
of Greater Milwaukee; House Education and Workforce, October 16, 2001
- Kenneth
Mayfield, Commissioner, Dallas County, Texas; House Veterans Affairs Committee;
April 18, 2002
- Benjamin
L. Cardin, Congressman from the State of Maryland; House Ways and Means Committee;
March 7, 2002
- Mark
H. Greenberg, Senior Staff Attorney, Center for Law and Social Policy; House
Ways and Means Committee; March 7, 2002
- Pat
Albright, Every Mother is a Working Mother, Philadelphia, PA; House Ways and
Means Committee; April 11, 2002
- Robin
Arnold Williams, Executive Director, Utah Department of Human Services; House
Ways and Means Committee, Subcommittee on Human Resource; April 11, 2002
- Rev.
David Beckmann, President, Bread for the World; House Ways and Means Committee,
Subcommittee on Human Resource; April 11, 2002
- Helen
Blank, Director, Childcare and Development Division, Children's Defense Fund;
House Ways and Means Committee, Subcommittee on Human Resource; April 11,
2002
- Vanessa
Brown, Leader, Mothers on the Move Committee, Philadelphia Unemployment Project;
House Ways and Means Committee, Subcommittee on Human Resource; April 11,
2002
- Sister
Mary Elizabeth Clark, Spokesperson, Network, National Catholic Social Justice
Lobby; House Ways and Means Committee, Subcommittee on Human Resource; April
11, 2002
- Kathleen
A. Curran, Policy Advisor, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops; House
Ways and Means Committee, Subcommittee on Human Resource; April 11, 2002
- Martha
F. Davis, Vice President and Legal Director, Now Legal Defense and Education
Fund; House Ways and Means Committee, Subcommittee on Human Resource; April
11, 2002
- Christine
Devere, Analyist of Social Legislation, Library of Congress; House Ways and
Means Committee, Subcommittee on Human Resource; March 15, 2001
- Cynthia
M. Fagnoni, Managing Director, Education, Workforce, and Income Security Issues,
CAO; House Ways and Means Committee, Subcommittee on Human Resource; March
15, 2001
- Mark
Greenberg, Senior Staff Attorney, Center for Law and Social Policy; House
Ways and Means Committee, Subcommittee on Human Resource; March 15, 2001
- Marcie
Kaptur, Representative in Congress from the State of Ohio; House Ways and
Means Committee, Subcommittee on Human Resource; April 11, 2002
- Dennis
Kucinich, Representative in Congress from the State of Ohio; House Ways and
Means Committee, Subcommittee on Human Resource; April 11, 2002
- Jodie
Levin-Espstein, Senior Policy Analyst, Center for Law and Social Policy; House
Ways and Means Committee, Subcommittee on Human Resource; April 11, 2002
- Paul
Marchand, Assistant Executive Director, Policy and Advocacy, ARC; House Ways
and Means Committee, Subcommittee on Human Resource; April 11, 2002
- Raymond
Meier, Chair, Committee on Social Services, New York State Senate; House Ways
and Means Committee, Subcommittee on Human Resource; April 11, 2002
- Martin
O'Malley, Mayor, Baltimore, Maryland, Representing U.S. Conference of Mayors;
House Ways and Means Committee, Subcommittee on Human Resource; April 11,
2002
- Bich
Ha Pham, Executive Director, Hunger Action Network of New York State; House
Ways and Means Committee, Subcommittee on Human Resource; April 11, 2002
- Wendell
Primus, Director of Income Security, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities;
House Ways and Means Committee, Subcommittee on Human Resource; April 11,
2002
- Laurie
Rubiner, Vice President, National Partnership for Women and Families; House
Ways and Means Committee, Subcommittee on Human Resource; May 22, 2001
- Rabbi
David Saperstein, Director, Religious Action of Reform Judiasm; House Ways
and Means Committee, Subcommittee on Human Resource; April 11, 2002
- Lee
Saunders, Executive Assistant to the President, American Federation of State;
House Ways and Means Committee, Subcommittee on Human Resource; April 11,
2002
- Jason
A. Turner, Director, Center for Self Sufficiency, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; House
Ways and Means Committee, Subcommittee on Human Resource; April 11, 2002
- Jennifer
Reinert, Secretary, Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development; House Ways
and Means Committee; March 7, 2002
- Marge
Thomas, Chief Executive Director, Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake, Baltimore,
Maryland; House Ways and Means Committee; March 7, 2002
- Representative
Bill Thomas (R-CA) et al; House Ways and Means Committee, March 14, 2001
- Rev.
Nathan Wilson, Director, Public Policy, Call to Renewal; House Ways and Means
Committee, Subcommittee on Human Resource; April 11, 2002
- Robert
Rector, Senior Research Fellow, The Heritage Foundation; Senate Banking, Housing,
and Urban Affairs, Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation; May 1, 2002
- Howard
Dean, Governor of Vermont; Senate Environment and Public Works, Subcommittee
on Superfund, Toxics, Risk and Waste Management; April 10, 2002
- U.S.
Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), Chairman; Senate Finance Committee; March 12, 2002
- Gordon
L. Berlin, Senior Vice President, Manpower Demonstration, Research Corporation;
March 12, 2002
- Senator
John Breaux; Senate Finance Commitee; March 12, 2002
- Howard
Dean, Governor of Vermont; Senate Finance Committee, April 10, 2002
- Senator
Christopher J. Dodd; Senate Finance Committee; May 16, 2002
- Arlene
McNamee, Executive Director, Catholic Social Services in Fall River, MA; Senate
Finance Committee; April 10, 2002
- Steve
Savner, Senior Staff Attorney, Center for Law and Social Policy; Senate Finance
Committee; April 10, 2002
- Tommy
G. Thompson, Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services; Senate Finance
Committee; March 12, 2002
- Ellen
Bravo, Director, National Association of Working Women; Senate Health, Education,
Labor, and Pensions Committee; February 14, 2002
- Peter
Edelman, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center; Senate Health,
Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee; February 14, 2002
- Steven
Cornell, Director, Udall Center; Senate Indian Affairs Committee; May 10,
2002