Over 43 million americans provide direct care to older family members, with women serving as 66 of all primary caregivers. And as we baby boomers, as our generation ages, the number of Senior Citizens requiring care will likely spike. Less takehome pay for those caregivers means tighter finances, more stress, and lost opportunities. All at a time when families are confronting Health Crisis or dealing with unique challenges of starting a new family. With such events often coinciding with high medical bills, the last thing a stressed family needs is a smaller working budget. Senator king and i have offered a proposal that would enable working families to have continued access to pay while they are meeting necessary family obligations. Our plan would create a tax credit to encourage employers to voluntarily offer paid leave for workers. To be eligible for that tax credit, the employer must at a minimum offer four weeks of paid leave. But they could offer more. Paid leave would be availabl
Seeing today. Lets consider more deeply what the president s executive action would do to enforcement in america. Let me just say, we are not just making this up. We are not having some idea that he might do something. It has been repeatedly leaked from the white house. They have discussed it. The president has promised to act with groups like the aclu that he has been meeting with. E has told them he intends to do this. The latest article yesterday, the wall street journal, big article said, it would happen. Shortly after labor day. This is not something we are making up. It is a direct threat, a direct promise from the white house. I hope they will not go forward with it. Surely, cooler heads in the white house will push back. Surely his attorney general will say, mr. President , you cant do this. His legal present Legal Counsel will say, dont do this. This is not lawful. Security, they need to say this would be devastating. How can we enforce any law . Please dont do this. I dont th
Coming back, the children, the children accompanied by their parents and the unaccompanied adults. Were doing that. Were dramatically reducing the time it takes for that to happen and were asking for the Additional Resources to my department and to the department of justice to turn these people around quicker including the children. So were asking for that and in terms of the change in law as i said a moment ago, were asking and this will be in a separate submission for the ability to treat unaccompanied kids from the Central American countries in the same way we would someone from a contiguous country so that we have the ability to offer them voluntary return which the kids from mexico do accept. Senator murray. Thank you for holding this hearing today. I think everybody this this room, republicans, democrats are at least in agreement that what were seeing along the nations southwest border is simply unacceptable. As some have mentioned, the numbers of young people and children crossi