Xavier Becerra: “It seems that too often the 435 Members of this body forget about the real world. We, fortunately, are paid well. We are…”

“It seems that too often the 435 Members of this body forget about the real world. We, fortunately, are paid well. We are cared for by our government, and we all try to do the same for our constituents; but somehow this particular bill that is before us forgets about that, because somehow it talks about helping a woman who for the most part is short on education or short on training and expects her to go out to work and earn a wage that will compensate her so she can feed her family because she has got kids, because otherwise she would not be on welfare, and let her survive the daily grind of living well at $16,000, let me tell my colleagues, which is probably what most of these women will be making, $16,000, $20,000, who are going to be putting about a third of that money into day care and a third of that into housing and the rest in food. They do not have money for health care, they do not have money for any expectancies of life, and what is going to happen is these women will be right back in welfare because this Republican welfare bill does nothing to deal with reality.”