Jack Kingston: “The other thing is that if we want to help workers, we do want to have a safe work environment. Everybody, an employer…”

“The other thing is that if we want to help workers, we do want to have a safe work environment. Everybody, an employer, government employees, everybody will agree on that. But if we want to help the workers across America, the key thing we have to do is honor why they are working, and that is to make money and make a better society. Now, if we want to help those workers, let us let them keep more of their own paycheck. And the President has vetoed a $500 per child tax credit. He has vetoed an earned income tax credit that would have helped America's working poor. He has vetoed a balanced budget amendment which would have brought down interest rates so that they could borrow money less expensively for their cars, for their homes and so forth. But I think one of the things that really adds insult to the American workers is his veto of a bipartisan welfare reform bill, a welfare reform bill which would have only required people to work 20 hours a week. Now, I ask the gentleman from Arizona, is there anybody in Arizona who can provide for their families working 20 hours a week?”