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Rob Andrews: I want to talk, Mr. Speaker, tonight about some of the people who are affected by the issues we are talking about. Many…

On the recordSeptember 12, 1995
I want to talk, Mr. Speaker, tonight about some of the people who are affected by the issues we are talking about. Many of us sense in all of our districts a tremendous sense of frustration that people have about government. They go to work 50, 60, 70 hours a week. if they are fortunate enough to have two adults in the family, the two adults barely see each other, five minutes in the morning before they leave for work, 15 minutes in the evening after the chores are done, after the children are put to bed, before they go to sleep. All the things that they would do during the week they do on Saturday, if they do not work on Saturday at their third job, and they see their children for 3 hours a week at a soccer game or 2 hours a week to take them to Girl Scouts or something like that.
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Rob Andrews
Democratic · New Jersey

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Discussing the challenges faced by working families during a speech on public education funding.

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