Hilda L. Solis: “as a freshman here in the House, I waited to see where we could work together on a bipartisan effort so that we could…”

“as a freshman here in the House, I waited to see where we could work together on a bipartisan effort so that we could provide the much-needed relief that Californians are crying out for. When I go home today and I meet those folks that I represent, the people who are not going to get one iota of a tax break on relief, the people in my district currently are probably the hardest working folks, senior citizens, that have paid their way, that have given us the riches that we have in this country. They are waiting. They are waiting to see what action is going to take place here. The folks in my district want to keep the lights on in California. They get no help from this budget on the energy crisis. There is an energy crisis. There are children who are crying because they want to know that they are going to be able to have school rooms that are not going to fall down on them because they are going to be built to secure their education and their livelihood there. That is not in this budget. What about the promises we made to seniors for Medicare and Medicaid reform to help them? What about those people in my district that have been gouged by those energy producers from Texas?”