I wanted to share with you a speech I gave today on the floor of the Senate regarding the possibility of a government shutdown.
If politicians love America, they must love America’s children and invest in their future. In the richest country in the history of the world, we cannot tolerate having the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country on Earth. Today, 14 million kids don’t have enough to eat. More than 4 million kids do not have health insurance and millions more are underinsured. Hundreds of thousands of children are homeless each year. That is an outrage.
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A free and democratic society, which is what America is supposed to be about, depends upon the basic premise that people can speak out, organize and take part in public life without fear — without worrying that they might be killed, injured or humiliated for expressing their political views. In fact, that is the essence of what freedom is about and what democracy is about.
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