Passing the Healthy Families Act, or emergency legislation that reflects its core principles, would not only do right by American workers and families.

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

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

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

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

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

Those are the five countries that don't have paid sick leave in the world.

It would protect the public health by helping to stop the spread of dangerous viral infections like H1N1.

I encourage my colleagues to pay close attention to this health crisis.

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

According to the Center for Disease Control, an individual who comes to work with H1N1 will infect 10 percent of his or her coworkers.

Living with a Petri dish is usually a fascinating experience.

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

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

The Obama administration has recently committed to ending homelessness among veterans within 5 years, and I commend that commitment.

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

I'm introducing emergency legislation to help keep Americans safe from the H1N1 virus.

Families shouldn't have to choose between staying healthy and making ends meet.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Families are anxious about this pandemic and are frustrated that vaccines remain unavailable.

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