Burgess Owens: “I hope that in the next few months we can see an end to one feature of this Congress that is highly undesirable, and…”

“I hope that in the next few months we can see an end to one feature of this Congress that is highly undesirable, and that is the attack on working-class families. The attack on working families must cease. It is counterproductive. It does no good. It is out of step with the present situation in America where we are enjoying unlimited prosperity. The stock market, the Dow Jones average has jumped to the 9,000 level. It is double what it was 2 years ago. Unprecedented prosperity we are enjoying, and yet at a time like this, the war on working families has been intensified by the Republican majority. I can speak from intimate experience about this war on working families, because I serve as the ranking member on the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections of the Committee on Education and the Workforce. So we are having hearings; we are having markups; and I know intimately how this war is intensifying, and it has become a kind of a microguerrilla warfare.”