Rosa DeLauro

I had a bill that would take the Medicaid coverage to a year instead of 2 months, but I could not get one Republican on that bill.

With my plan, we can move towards affordable, universal coverage without starting from scratch.

Unaffordable, out-of-pocket healthcare costs aren't just an issue in my State.

I am the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Health Braintrust, so I am very concerned about the disparities in health for minorities.

At its core, Medicare for America is about ensuring that every American has healthcare.

Medicare for America achieves universal, affordable, high-quality health coverage by creating a program based on Medicare and Medicaid that covers all Americans.

I am here this morning to advocate for Medicare for America, which I first introduced with my dear friend and my colleague, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky.

I would think that our Tax Code exacerbates the very point that you have made.

The Tax Code helps to shape how companies structure their employment, and you have got in the recent TCJA a 20 percent deduction for certain passthrough income enacted in that bill.

Tax policy is one of the most important tools that we have to address economic inequality and to promote gender and racial equity, but today it does too little.

The inequality that they face is an important and rising part of the equation for what causes general inequality.

Inequality is not inevitable. It is about the choices we make.

We know who got the benefit of it. It has been proven over and over and over again.

We have a piece of legislation called the American Family Act, which I am proud to have authored.

The child tax credit, 83 percent of the Republican tax law went to the richest 1 percent of the people in this country.

They want to eliminate affordable housing programs, the very programs that have helped to lift people out of poverty.

They want to change the way that the federal government measures poverty, thereby throwing people off of these programs.

Much of that reduction is due to our social safety net programs.

The earned income tax credit excludes single people. They are currently being taxed into poverty.

We have to give workers back their right to organize. This a human right.

We do know that a Nobel Prize winning economist, Joe Stiglitz, no schlep in the economy world, here says that inequality is not inevitable. It is about the choices we make.

A $75 increase to families to reduce inequality. Talk for a moment about providing a child tax credit for the families that I am talking about.

Do not talk out of both sides of your mouth because what you would do with some of these programs to make them so onerous as to humiliate people into not taking advantage of the programs that are there.

They want to change the way that the federal government measures poverty, thereby throwing people off of these programs

The social safety net programs were crafted by Democrats and Republicans, in fact, realizing the economic challenges we were facing