Rosa DeLauro actually said...

"Establishing paid sick days is also about economic competitiveness, income security for families, and, as H1N1 has proved to us this past year, primarily the public health."

"The argument that we cannot afford to institute paid sick days right now does not hold water."

"We all urge you to quickly pass the Healthy Families Act, the bill now before Congress that offers the best solution to this problem."

"I can recall very similar kinds of conversations when we were going through the Family and Medical Leave, that we were going to, really--that American business was going to go to hell in a hand basket..."