Marcy Kaptur: “I want to thank the gentlelady for those very profound comments tonight and just place on the record that just in our…”

“I want to thank the gentlelady for those very profound comments tonight and just place on the record that just in our church last weekend the priest informed us that compared to last year he was asking for people to dig deeper because the number of baskets and the number of ``asks'' was up well over 125. I think just for our church it's over 360 now for this year. For a small congregation, that's a bit of a struggle. That's just one place, just one corner in America, repeated in 50 States, in every hamlet. I appreciate what the gentlelady said about the spirit of this particular season of light and of giving and that the people who are out of work have earned these benefits. They're not asking for any handout. They're asking for the insurance that they earned as a condition of work in order to help have a merry Christmas and a happy Chanukah and very Eid greeting season. They're not asking for anything they haven't earned. I thank the gentlelady for coming down tonight. Our leader, Congressman John Garamendi of California, is with us tonight. We thank him so much for reserving this Special Order and for the incredible leadership that he has exhibited each and every week that we have been in session. Just a powerful and sustaining voice on Making It in America and creating jobs here.”