aparnaof mathur -- mathur is our guest. you came up with their own proposal that you think is a copper mise plan. can you walk through what that proposal would be -- compromised plan, what would that proposal be? guest: we would focus on not just the benefits of paid leave policy but what is the cost of having a patently policy? why are we not moving forward on it? we came up with a compromise plan. it was gender-neutral. there was a benefit of $600 per week. the reason we have focused in on that was that we wanted the benefits to be relatively well documented toward the lowest wage workers. the ones who, across the country, have literally no access to paid leave. they are the ones who are unlikely to get the unpaid minimum leave because it is unpaid -- take the unpaid minimum leave because it is unpaid. our focus was on how do we expand access to the lowest wage workers and one way to do that was to make the benefits generous for the lowest wage workers. that is why we decided on that. host: that is your proposal part seve

aparnaof mathur -- mathur is our guest.ame up with their own proposal that you think is a copper mise plan. can you walk through what that proposal would be -- compromised plan, what would that proposal be? guest: we would focus on not just the benefits of paid leave policy but what is the cost of having a patently policy? why are we not moving forward on it? we came up with a compromise plan. it was gender-neutral. there was a benefit of $600 per week. the reason we have focused in on that was that we wanted the benefits to be relatively well documented toward the lowest wage workers. the ones who, across the country, have literally no access to paid leave. they are the ones who are unlikely to get the unpaid minimum leave because it is unpaid -- take the unpaid minimum leave because it is unpaid. our focus was on how do we expand access to the lowest wage workers and one way to do that was to make the benefits generous for the lowest wage workers. that is why we decided on that. host: that is your proposal part several ot

later, a him author looks at -- mathur looks at proposals for paid family leave.ington journal" is next. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ host: good morning. it is monday, march 11th. the house meets at noon eastern paris to the senate reconvenes at 3:00 p.m. and both chambers get there look at the 2020 budget proposal when the white house delivers the spending plan later this morning. we begin on the renewed debate over lowering the voting age in this country. last week, the house decided against the measure aimed at lowering the age to 16. we want to know what you think about that idea. if you support lowering the voting age to 16, phone number