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 its hard to give them another Unfunded Mandate to do this work. The juxtaposition of those comments strikes me a little bit. Theres a lot written about the marginal tax rates, you know im going to need a little more time. Im sorry, robert. The n
And we are pleased to have three members of the house today to talk about their report and here reactions from notable experts on the programs. But first, and perhaps most importantly, we are going to start outside of washington. And hear from experts in the field of helping lowincome americans moving up. They work in places far removed from the halls of congress about their work has informed some of the ideas contained in the steering committees report. I have a special affinity for these outside of washington experts, as that is where i worked prior to coming to washington. I spent 19 years working in social Service Agencies in the state and city of new york and i have some idea of the dedication, hard and wisdom of people who work in peace programs, and i always love to be among them. So im very pleased to welcome and introduce to you the first panel which features three 3 mef communitybased organizations. First will be owed l. Cleveland the Administrative Officer for the Baptist Ch
Death penalty and my name is dale. I teach law at georgetown and to run a Supreme Court practice. We are here to talk about the Death Penalty, where its going and i cant imagine a better group of panelists. Over here is the president of the Southern Center for human rights. You know in my mind the leading Death Penalty litigants in the country. And has been for a number of years traveling throughout the country to bring these cases. He had a big one in the Supreme Court or couple weeks ago ago which may be i will tell you a little bit about that hes been teaching at Yale Law School since 1993 which yesterday was significant because that was my first class on the Death Penalty which he taught and was just a marvelous in its rationale figure and its a delight to be here with him. Roy adams is the director of the center for effective justice of the texas Public Policy center. Mark does interesting work in the cause of the criminal Justice System and is making the case for a conservative c
Lifetime job so that we wouldnt feel pressure to do a decision based on Public Opinion from fear that somehow we will be driven from our work. And so were not thinking about Public Opinion in terms of reaching the answer that we believe the law compels. Every year, if you read our most sensitive decisions, you will see us recognizing the impact those decisions might have on people. In every sensitive opinion the court is very aware when one of its decisions is going to be particularly difficult for some people in the society. Its recognized in our writing. But we do take pride on the fact that we are voting according to what we think the constitution or the laws require. That means that we can be aware of what the effect will be. We can even acknowledge it. But thats a different thing from letting it determine the outcome of a decision. [ applause ] now, would the students please not leave . Im coming down now. I would like to take a picture with the students who are here because they
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