Eva M. Clayton: “We would have you to balance your priority. We also would have you to recognize that is not ineffective, nonessential to…”

“We would have you to balance your priority. We also would have you to recognize that is not ineffective, nonessential to make sure that senior citizens have heat in the winter and have air-conditioning in the summer. It is not ineffective, no longer needed, that those almost 500 people who died in Chicago, the majority of them senior citizens, the majority of them low-income, had no air-conditioning. That was life and death. So we are talking about priorities. This bill, more than any other bill, makes the distinction between the policies of the minority and the cruel extreme policies of the majority. You will go to a balanced budget at the cost of anything, regardless of whether people live or die. You raise the issue about children, and yet you depress the opportunity for them to learn, to live, and to be healthy. You claim that you are about family values and yet you deny the opportunity, even want to deny the opportunity of family planning. This is, indeed, lack of consistency and borders on hypocrisy. So what we would have you to do is to understand there are consequences to your actions.”