On the recordMarch 4, 2015
sadly, today the Republicans are again coming to the Senate floor--not to help the working people who work every day to make our country great--but to silence their voices. They aren't here to reward the hard-working families that work from paycheck to paycheck just to give their children a better life and the education that they deserve. They aren't here to pass a highway bill that would support millions of jobs. Instead, they want to hold the highway bill hostage to big polluting Canadian special interests and build the Keystone pipeline which will only create 35 permanent jobs. They aren't here to raise the minimum wage. They aren't here to expand the child care tax credit. They aren't here to ensure equal pay for equal work. They aren't here to try to make college more affordable for middle-class families. They aren't here to help workers get health care--we know that because right now Republicans are suing to take away health care from more than 8 million Americans. They certainly aren't here to fix our Nation's broken immigration system. If Republicans were interested in that, they would be supporting the reasonable, commonsense immigration measures proposed by President Obama that will result in indisputable economic gains for our country--raising the Nation's GDP by up to $90 billion over the next 10 years.…
