Barbara Boxer: “Does the Senator not think it is an outrage? We work hard and we make a decent living. We get an automatic…”

“Does the Senator not think it is an outrage? We work hard and we make a decent living. We get an automatic cost-of-living adjustment unless we stop it. Yet the same people who take a cost-of- living adjustment for themselves won't give a small increase to the people at the bottom of the ladder who are trying so hard to make something of themselves and rise above problems, illness, and poverty-- sometimes for generations--and want to be able to get into the workforce. My colleague says Tommy Thompson says it is important that these be good jobs. I wonder if any of our colleagues could live on $10,800 a year. I do not think they could. I do not think so.”