Rob Andrews: “this is a very special day in the House of Representatives when those who support this amendment are overwhelmed with…”

“this is a very special day in the House of Representatives when those who support this amendment are overwhelmed with compassion for the parents of low-income children. That is not the case when we bring a tax bill to the floor and they refuse to make their tax credit refundable so low-income families can have it. That is not the case on a normal day on this floor, when no legislation to provide health insurance to the 44 million uninsured people of America is brought to this floor. That compassion is sorely lacking when there has been a commitment by the majority not to move a bill to raise the minimum wage of many of those parents that we are talking about today. This is a very special day when compassion for those families seems to come to the forefront. A year-long, a life-long commitment to that compassion would defeat this amendment and pass legislation that would provide health care and housing and jobs and real opportunity for those families we hear about from the proponents of the amendment. Defeat this amendment for real compassion.”