Earl Blumenauer: “there is absolutely nothing cynical about the delay. My Republican friends need some time to get their facts straight. I…”

“there is absolutely nothing cynical about the delay. My Republican friends need some time to get their facts straight. I really get tired about hearing these phony arguments. We're going to be covering some adults. Why are we covering some adults? Because the Republican administration granted State waivers for some States to be able to deal with some experiments to add to them, and this legislation stops the ability to grant those waivers that the Bush administration enacted. We're talking about it should be just poor children, and somehow I heard somebody talk about $200,000 levels. Hogwash. There was one State that requested a waiver, New York, that would have taken it up to $83,000. That was denied. There are a number of States, with the approval of the Bush administration, that have raised the levels. New Jersey at $63,000 still doesn't hit their median income. Only one out of 10 of these children are in family incomes of over $40,000. You need 2 weeks to get your facts straight.”