Chris Dodd

Unfortunately, the struggle to access benefits is a common one for the veterans who have earned them.

I am encouraged by the partnerships being forged between the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Veterans' Administration.

That is unacceptable.

I am proud to be an original co-sponsor of the Healthy Families Act that would allow workers to earn up to 56 hours of paid leave.

Ensuring that workers have paid leave makes the decision to stay home much easier for employees who are struggling to pay the bills.

I'm learning about--I used to understand this issue intellectually.

Of course you're--then, with the inconsistency, in a way, obviously, of recommending these policies, and yet we don't really have an overall strategy.

We're also working on some emergency legislation to deal with this kind of a situation, and we don't have it framed yet.

How do we accommodate that? We've got to try to think about a structure, here, that can be more acceptable.

Again, there have been these reports, obviously, of detainees in Guantanamo receiving the vaccines.

So the expectation we set earlier on was unrealistic.

Workers should have paid sick leave as a matter of basic fairness, in my view.

This isn't just a workers' rights issue, it's a public health emergency.

Indications from the Nov. 10 hearing and Chairman Dodd's office note that he will be introducing similar legislation with significant modifications.

It's hard to envision other nations allowing limited supply of vaccine raw material to be shipped outside their borders in the event of a lethal pandemic.

Is it the Administration's view that you would support the Healthy Families Act? Is that true?

Now sick leave is a matter of keeping Americans safe from this pandemic, and from the next one or whatever it may be.

Congress should waste no time in passing the Healthy Families Act so that working people can earn paid time off.

I was told 100 percent of school bus drivers do not have any sick leave pay. That number, obviously, is a pretty staggering number.

Rosa, go get yourself well. Don't worry about your job as chief of staff, don't worry about the campaign. It's there. It begins when you get back.

I wish he could have been here today to help make this case. He cared very deeply about this issue.

It's a matter of fairness for workers, in my view, and it's a matter of safety for all others.

That is exactly the question--it is cumulative? That's the number available now?

Again, we're talking about--our priority populations here are pregnant women, children, and the elderly.

Now, one of the issues I've heard raised is that, in some of these countries, the political community have passed legislation prohibiting the exportation of the vaccines outside until all of their needs are being met domestically.