. >> senator charleta tavares has been working for years to redress racial health disparities in ohio. she proposed an amendment to ohio's budget to fund health programs to specifically reduce infant mortality in minority communities. >> every public official will hold up a baby, will talk about how children are our greatest assets, but it seems to some communities and the community that i represent, that some babies matter more than others. >> those opposed say "nay" >> the proposal went nowhere. the majority voting to move ahead without the amendment. >> i'm for doing well for the poor, but you don't do it by making it easy for them to stay in poverty, you have to drive them out and make them uncomfortable in their poverty and they will do for themselves. they will earn for themselves and they will be much better off at the end of the day when they have earned it on their own, versus when they have gotten handouts. >> but why would politicians in a state clearly in the midst of a crisis, with such high numbers of babies dying before their first birthday, turn down money that could m