[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 13]
[House]
[Pages 17986-17987]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   WHO WILL CARE FOR THE CAREGIVERS?

  (Ms. RICHARDSON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. RICHARDSON. November is National Caregivers Month. All across 
America, there are thousands of Americans who need help. They need help 
to stand, to sit, to put on their shoes, to go to the rest room, and 
even some to take their last breath. And there are those who are 
sitting by the bedside of those people, we call them in-home health 
care workers, who oftentimes in this country barely make even a minimum 
wage themselves, and if they needed the very care that they were 
providing, they could probably not afford it.
  As this Congress decides and looks at the joint committee's decisions 
and proposals before us, let's not go against those working people, 
thousands of people who don't even have enough to take care of their 
own families.
  The decisions can be done better, but they certainly should not be on 
the backs of working people and those who care for our Americans.

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