Barbara Boxer: “All we are saying as Democrats to our friends is: Take care of the American people. Take care of them. They deserve it.…”

“All we are saying as Democrats to our friends is: Take care of the American people. Take care of them. They deserve it. I am waiting for some photographs of the freeze that occurred in my home State. I see they have arrived. I need to share these with my friends. There is a song called 'Strawberry Fields Forever.' I want my colleagues to look at what happened to the strawberry fields in California as a result of the freeze. When we look at this, I say to my colleague from Washington--I want to get her attention just to look at this and to thank her for helping us. This is a strawberry field. It looks like an ice rink. The strawberries are destroyed. I want to show my colleagues our oranges. This is an orange tree. This is what has happened because of the frost. This picture is worth a thousand words. I say to the President and my Republican friends: Don't turn your backs on these good people who endured these losses. We need to help people. We need to help the workers. That is what is in this bill.”