So I would ask the gentleman, I am looking through our Twitter feed here, and we have got a number of people who have kind of chimed in on it. One young person just tweeted at us, Dolores Tejada. She is a child of immigrants from Guatemala, and she is the first in her family to go to college. Her parents, she said, make the minimum wage, and she has been working for 6 years at a nonprofit and pays $350 a month on her student loan debt. She said without this payment, she would buy a car--she currently has to share one with the entire family--and she would move out of her parents' house. Have you heard stories like Dolores' in your district or across our country?
Eric Swalwell: “So I would ask the gentleman, I am looking through our Twitter feed here, and we have got a number of people who have…”
On the recordMarch 25, 2015
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