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Search results for "The Republican party has historically blocked paid family medical leave"

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Pete Buttigieg stated on August 11, 2024 in an interview on CNN State of the Union:
Gov. Tim Walz delivered paid family leave in Minnesota but “Republicans are blocking” a Biden-Harris proposal.
By Amy Sherman• August 16, 2024
Chris Larson stated on December 12, 2023 in X, formerly Twitter:
In the past year, Michigan, Minnesota and Illinois passed "highly popular” policies such as paid family leave, one of several issues that have been stymied in Wisconsin by Republicans.
By Sophia Voight• January 30, 2024
Bernie Sanders stated on October 14, 2015 in the CNN Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas:
"Every other major country" has family paid leave.
By Amy Sherman• October 14, 2015
Vicki Shabo stated on December 12, 2013 in an interview on MSNBC's "The Cycle":
"About 40 percent of workers don’t ... have a single paid sick day."
By Katie Sanders• December 17, 2013
Bernie Sanders stated on April 08, 2020 in an op-ed published in The Guardian:
“It has been estimated that only 12% of workers in businesses that are likely to stay open during this crisis are receiving paid sick leave benefits as a result of the second coronavirus relief package."
By Shefali Luthra• April 13, 2020
Barack Obama stated on June 22, 2017 in a Facebook post:
The Senate bill "hands enormous tax cuts to the rich and to the drug and insurance industries, paid for by cutting health care for everybody else."
By John Kruzel• June 26, 2017
Jennifer Boysko stated on January 18, 2021 in a committee debate.:
“The United States is the only industrialized, modernized country that does not already have a paid family medical leave program in place.”
By Warren Fiske• January 28, 2021
Lisa Subeck stated on February 16, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter:
“The United States is an outlier, one of only about half a dozen countries, without any guarantee of paid leave for new parents and/or other health care needs.”
By D.L. Davis• April 16, 2024
Andrew Cuomo stated on December 17, 2018 in a speech:
New York has passed "the best paid family leave" program in the United States of America.
By Jill Terreri Ramos• January 7, 2019
Greg Abbott stated on January 24, 2021 in a tweet:
“Innocent lives will be saved” by ending taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood.
By Brandon Mulder• February 12, 2021
Claire McCaskill stated on August 22, 2017 in a town hall in Monett, Mo.:
"We’re the only developed nation in the world that doesn’t have paid maternity leave."
By Emily McCarter, Lucille Sherman• September 28, 2017
Barack Obama stated on January 20, 2015 in the State of the Union address:
The United States is "the only advanced country on Earth" that doesn’t guarantee "paid maternity leave to our workers."
By Steve Contorno• January 21, 2015
Mark Miller stated on May 18, 2011 in remarks to reporters:
"Abraham Lincoln (once) jumped out of a window in the Illinois Legislature in order to deny a quorum."  
By Dave Umhoefer• May 30, 2011
Ricardo Lara stated on October 24, 2018 in full-page newspaper ads:
As California's Insurance Commissioner, "Steve Poizner pledged to block immigrant children from ever getting MediCal health insurance."
By Chris Nichols, Sami Soto• October 30, 2018
Raging Elephants stated on January 07, 2011 in a web post:
"Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican!"
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms• January 17, 2011
Kirsten Gillibrand stated on May 16, 2017 in a speech at a conference:
A national paid leave program "would potentially put into the economy $21 billion dollars annually."
By Dan Clark• June 15, 2017
Chris Dodd stated on November 05, 2007 in a TV ad airing in Iowa and New Hampshire.:
"Dodd brought both parties together to pass the Family and Medical Leave Act."
By Nell Benton• October 30, 2007
Moms Rising stated on July 13, 2016 in :
"In North Carolina, paid family leave is more popular than college basketball."
By Will Doran• July 15, 2016
Carla Sands stated on January 19, 2022 in an ad:
Joe Biden's “$4 trillion” Build Back Better bill is "the largest expansion of welfare programs in 60 years."
By Tom Kertscher• February 1, 2022
Iowa Republican Party stated on January 24, 2022 in a news release:
When asked if she supports the Build Back Better bill, Abby Finkenauer said that she didn’t know what was in it.
By Nina Baker• January 28, 2022

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