On the recordApril 17, 2012
Mr. Speaker, I was so happy this week when I learned from our Presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, that the Republicans are now prepared to realize that women are a very important part of the economy. And that is why I'm wondering why Romney has embraced the Republican budget which would fix Medicare by cutting out $30 billion in 10 years when 56 percent of all Medicare beneficiaries are women, and the oldest of old, 85 and older, 70 percent are women. Two-thirds of Medicaid recipients who are adults are women; and of the SNAP program--formerly known as food stamps--cut of $134 billion, of the adult recipients, two-thirds of them are women. So, in an environment where he claims that 92, 93 percent of all job losses have occurred among women, why would we snatch the safety net out from under women with this cruel Republican budget? ____________________
