Rob Andrews: “today there are 40 million Americans with no health insurance. There are millions of Americans who will go to bed…”

“today there are 40 million Americans with no health insurance. There are millions of Americans who will go to bed tonight with a knot in their stomach about whether they get a layoff notice tomorrow at their jobs. There are rivers that need to be cleaned, highways that need to be built, seniors who need health care in their homes, and what are we doing this afternoon? We are passing a law that says it is illegal for the Federal Government to print a document in a language other than English. If I have ever seen a solution in search of a problem, this is it. I know, Mr. Chairman, what this is really about. It is about millions of Americans who are sick to their stomach and worried to death that they are going to lose what they have worked for their whole life. What is the solution? It is to beat up on and demonize people who do not look like we do or talk like we do. Mr. Chairman, if we want to do something to address the real problem of those very real people, then give paid leave to people so they can leave work and take care of their children, stop corporations from raiding the pension funds of their employees, provide health benefits for every working American in this country, fund bilingual education, so people can read and write the English language, and put our constituents back to work. This is a shameless and shameful attempt to take the real anxieties of real people and direct them at people who are not like some of the rest of us.”