09/14/2011
https://www.congress.gov...
"According to the latest figures from the OECD, the United States has both the highest overall poverty rate and the highest childhood poverty rate of any major industrialized country on Earth."
"Today, there are nearly 44 million Americans, living below the poverty line, and that is the largest number on record."
"Your point is not just that people are dying, or suffering, or losing limbs because they can't get to a doctor."
"I always hesitate to quote somebody who's not here."