Rep. Corrine Brown: “I held up this picture earlier, and this is Rile-ya Wilson has been missing in the State of Florida for 15 months. Now…”

“I held up this picture earlier, and this is Rile-ya Wilson has been missing in the State of Florida for 15 months. Now we are talking about super block granting the money to the State where we have no accountability. In Florida, we have close to 800,000 children living below the poverty line. That is 22 percent of all of the children in Florida. The kids in Florida have double jeopardy. First of all, we have a President that has given away $500 billion and wants to make it permanent as tax breaks to the richest people in this country, and then we have a governor in the State of Florida that gives the rest of the money away to the businesses. And yet the State of Florida, the average worker that takes care of these kids does not make $20,000 a year, and they have a roll of between 40 and 100 kids that they have to look after. The Republicans are very, very good with gimmicks. They have Leave No Child Behind, a slogan they stole from the Children's Defense Fund. What does that mean? This is the time we need to look at leaving no child behind; but are we doing that? No, no. We are talking about we cannot afford to take care of our children, but we can afford to take care of everybody else but the children. They talk a great talk, but they do not walk the walk. Mr. Speaker, there are two words to describe what's wrong with this welfare bill--Rile-ya Wilson.”