Maxine Waters: “As we look at what the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Lee) is doing and the tremendous work she is putting into this…”

“As we look at what the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Lee) is doing and the tremendous work she is putting into this international AIDS crisis, tonight there is a category called Child Survival and Disease Program Fund in the budget for $202 million, and she is adding to that fund so perhaps just one or two more babies will have medicine, one or two more children may be able to survive HIV or full-blown AIDS, even. Let me just say that what we are doing is minuscule. It is not nearly enough. We need to do more. That is why we have to take up all of this time on the floor to beat everybody across the head on this issue, and not let this epidemic continue in the way that it is doing. We have to keep pushing this issue, keep pushing the envelope, because we have not even begun to do what we should be doing.”