Passing the Healthy Families Act or emergency legislation that reflects its core principles would finally give American ...
Establishing paid sick days is also about economic competitiveness, income security for families, and, as H1N1 has prove...
Now is the time to protect our communities and put family values to work by adopting policies that guarantee a basic wor...
Our failure to provide a minimum standard of paid sick days also is putting our public health at risk.
For all of these reasons and more, Senator Kennedy and I first introduced the Healthy Families Act, 5 years ago.
It was groundbreaking and visionary public policy to meet the needs that people were facing in their lives.
What I think has crystallized the issue for all of us is the H1N1 crisis.
Every year the seasonal flu and other illnesses strike millions of us, and every year the failure to let workers earn pa...
We need to walk in the shoes of the millions of Americans who work hard every day to support their families.
Working people need paid time off to recover from H1N1, to care for sick family members, to prevent spread of the virus.
I can recall very similar kinds of conversations when we were going through the Family and Medical Leave, that we were g...
We all urge you to quickly pass the Healthy Families Act, the bill now before Congress that offers the best solution to ...
I believe that paid sick days are a basic question of right and wrong, as Senator Kennedy did.
I hope that we, in the Congress, can honor Senator Kennedy's legacy by finding the strength and the will to get this leg...
We ought to be doing something here to minimize this practice which goes on which disadvantages very talented workers.
But these employment protections have not been universally applied to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Americans.
This obviously is a delicate balance as we move forward in these areas.
I often thought that had it not been for that tragic accident, Jerry Litton might have ended up President of the United ...
