On the recordNovember 3, 2021
I just wanted to be able to really inform the American people and to let my friends on the other side of the aisle know what they are missing out on. And that is the greatest effort to improve the quality of life of Americans and raise their economic level of living since Social Security under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, since the Great Society under Lyndon Baines Johnson. Working moms having the ability to not pay more than 7 percent of their income to get childcare. Young--just beginning school, three years old and four years old--and not one three- or four-year-old being left out of pre-K. Giving them the intellectual stairstep to make a difference in their lives. And in the State of Texas--the poster child for the uninsured--oh, my goodness, how we have suffered: 766,000 uninsured refuse to take the expanded Medicaid. And now we have the ability to give every person healthcare. And when I spoke to a group that was supported by the American Heart Association, they applauded. Build back better is what we need to do and we need to do it now and pass both bills, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill--changing lives in America. ____________________
