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Janice Schakowsky: “That's why, because we all get into the numbers game, we talk about a billion here and a billion there, et cetera, and…”

On the recordNovember 28, 2012
That's why, because we all get into the numbers game, we talk about a billion here and a billion there, et cetera, and that's why I wanted to put up a picture of the beautiful Elodie Michaud, who happens to actually be the daughter of Megan Michaud, who is my legislative director, so people can look at a face. This is the kind of face, if not Elodie's face, that we are talking about. Here's a mom and a baby, too. These are the kinds of faces that we want people to keep in their mind because there are real people behind these numbers. It's easy to say we are going to cut money from the WIC program, Women, Infants, and Children program, and then you realize what that would mean to perhaps this mother and this baby and so many across the country.
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Janice Schakowsky
Democratic · Illinois
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Nov 28, 2012

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