Oh, that's great. Okay, yeah, well, I want to thank President Harris for coming to my kitchen and taking the time to hear my family's story really shows your commitment to women and people with disabilities, children and seniors. And that just means so much to us, especially over the last four years, it's, it's just so refreshing to have this hope that we can build back better and families have always had the caregiver money, they will always have their unique needs. And we're really in this historic moment where with full funding, we can change thinking, we can make an incredible change so that my children, the next generation of mothers and fathers don't have the same worries that I have. And the Vice President, I talked about my family, I have four children. My oldest is Claire, who's 15. And she was born with complex medical needs and disabilities, I had to leave the workforce when she was born, because we cannot find reliable quality, affordable care for her and then the same. Shortly thereafter, my parents became ill my mother suffered a stroke, my father had a series of heart attacks requiring quintuple bypass surgery. And he now is undergoing treatment for stage four cancer and the caregiving pressures are immense. And as much as I would like to I can't do it alone. And it's clear that the Vice President understands that and that there needs to be a fix, so that we can keep this country going and especially keep women in the workforce.
Well, I want to thank you, Jamie, for inviting us to have this conversation and improve the courage of, of your story and your ability to tell it I know, it's not easy. And when we talk about this issue, there are at least 8 million some estimates as many as 60 million people in America who are in this middle generation who are raising their children while taking care of their parents, and the demands on them that are the demands of what is required on a daily basis, the physical demands and emotional demands, the financial demands are immense. And the skills that are required, are very diverse, and often require a lot of study and training is taking care of children, which requires, of course, everything from meal preparation and feeding children to homework, to helping them tie their shoes, getting them to bed on time. The skills that are required to take care of parents and aging parents, again, yes, meal preparation, but also taking them to doctor's appointments or chemotherapy appointments, the unpredictability of when they might have a fall or take a fall or would require immediate and sudden and unpredictable healthcare. And all of this, mostly carried by women, and working women in America will have had to leave their chosen profession in their job to do this very important work that is work that is born out of love, and a sense of noble duty and commitment. But tireless, tireless in terms of the work that is required. Jamie talks with me about that she wakes up at the Capitol every day. She's never sure when the phone rings when it might be interesting, the urgent need of somebody she loves to have her support and her health and our aid. So Bill back there is born out of a sense of what Joe Biden the President and I feel is our collective responsibility as a society, to support parents to support the children of parents in the work that is noble good and important work. Build back better is focused on human infrastructure as well as roads and bridges. Infrastructure I define is what do you need to get where you need to go and sometimes a parent is needs to go to sleep. And so what do we need to do and that's about the caregiving economy that's about understanding the nobility of the people who do that work, which is physical work, emotional work, we don't pay them enough. No sick leave no paid family. Leave and So build back better is constructed in a way that understands that to allow families to function in the way that we want them to be able to function. We've got to as a society, give them the support, eldercare build back better is about saying that seniors and our elderly relatives, they lived a long life of hard work and they want to stay in their home. But they may need to build some bars so that it helps them get through physically through the house and they need a ramp. If they if they use a wheelchair, let's give them the resources to be able to live in their home to where they want to stay with dignity. And by the way, all society benefits not because it's the right thing to do. It's actually less expensive than requiring our seniors to go into some assisted facility. So the conversation that we have had is really I hope about making clear that there are very real people, families are working families that are behind the policies, and the effort of our build back agenda, which is to support these families in a way that if they were our neighbor or a relative of ours, we all want to do. So yeah. Thank you cancel. So thank you for being
here. Can't wait. And I know you were working so hard to try to solve that problem. Yeah, thank you and we will keep killing people. Thank you for paying for
