Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz on President Obama’s NCLR Address

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I commend President Obama for his address at NCLR today. Beyond his remarks, I am proud of President Obama’s actions, which are a strong testament to his commitment to the Hispanic community. Under President Obama’s leadership, we’ve expanded the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to an additional 4 million children, including legal immigrant children for the first time ever. Students across America benefit from student loan reform, which provides an additional 150,000 Pell Grants to Hispanic students. And he signed into law the Recovery Act, which kept 1.9 million Latinos out of poverty in 2009.

But these achievements have come in the face of undue Republican opposition in Congress – opposition not based in substance, but in political gamesmanship. As President Obama noted during his address, the minute he pronounces his support for a measure – like the DREAM Act – Republicans immediately oppose it, even if it was their idea to begin with. That’s the type of political game that has cost Latinos and the middle class dearly.

full: http://www.democrats.org/news/press/2568

[juajen]

1. Why can't we do something about their roadblocks. This is

unconscionable. I do not remember an impasse like this one in all of my adult years, and I am approaching 70 years of age. Isn't there some kind of legal remedy? Of course, it would help if the SCOTUS was not tied in knots also.