Nancy Pelosi: “I rise tonight, Mr. Speaker, to talk not just about children, but the families that they live in, because when we talk…”

“I rise tonight, Mr. Speaker, to talk not just about children, but the families that they live in, because when we talk about children, we not only talk about their health, education, and well-being, but we also talk about the economic security of their families. We talked about this last week when we made the fight successfully to increase the minimum wage, dragging this House kicking and screaming to a place where we could hold our head up a littler higher to pay fair wages to the American worker. But also part of the economic security of American families are the issues of Medicare and Medicaid, which once again take severe cuts in the budget proposal that passed the House tonight.”