>> well, i usually defer to rosa delauro on this. when it gets practical.t, yes, child care has been mentioned. it's essential. we need to see the minimum wage go up. and -- somewhere a little closer to a living wage. which even $10 or $15 isn't. i was reminded by a friend who works with me on some of these issues sometimes, need to bring in also a sensitivity to violence. that women do face certain kinds of situations that are very different. usually from what men face. i don't know if that's part of your agenda. but i think in general rosa will figure it out, i'll sign on. [laughter] >> to add to that. what has to take a look and focused on what government is doing or not doing. it is raising the minimum wage. quite frankly, now what we need to do is to extend unemployment benefits. that ought to be the first order of business, which we've been clouding. minimum wage. paid sick days. almost half the population has no -- women don't have one paid sick day. it's unbelievable. paid family and medical leave. and i've been able -- i joined with a senator in in

i think, as jan talked about, nancy pelosi and rosa delauro, we've had this incredible campaign called, when women succeed, america succeeds. and the point is it's good to help women in this country because this will really help america to succeed. and we no longer have the kind of families that many of us watched on television in the 1950's. in fact, the american family has permanently changed. and women head up more families on their own, more than half of the babies born to women ages 30 and younger are born to unmarried women. by the way, most of them white. so we've got women who are heading their families. we've got women who are trying to take care of their families. and they are now the sole bread winners in their family. they're not necessarily the second income or the income that helps out. with the man having the major income. and the statistic i think that, out of the shriver report that was really eye-opening for me, when we talk about the minimum wage, is that 2/3 of the workers who earn a minimum wage in this country are women. and if we could raise this minimum wage to

stuart: democrat rosa delauro claiming income inequality is the biggest threat to our way of life.id is her financial success. in 2012 she had the net worth of between 5 and $25 million. look, it's becoming clear, democrats in congress and the president himself staking out political turf. their issue is income inequality and this is an election year. look at this, from 2009 to 2012, the first three years of the recovery, the first three years of the obama term, the top 1% of earners captured 95% of all the income gains under president obama's leadership. the income gap has widened more than under any other president. we'll move on from there. time is money and so, in 30 seconds, here are the headlines in tech again today. alibaba, the amazon in china, it has to expand to mobile users saying each employee must sign up 100 users to its messaging app by november or they won't get that all important bonus. next, to apple, reports say that a new iphone is expected to launch this summer. also from apple, it will repair broken iphone screens for $150. seems a little steep. last one, and i

colleagues on the house side, including chairman jack kingston and ranking member congresswoman rosa delauro. no one got 100% of what they wanted in this bill which is often a sign of probably a pretty good deal. despite the fact that i wanted to do more to alleviate the disastrous sequester cuts of 2013 i'd like to speak about a few of the essential investments in this bill that i hope my colleagues will join in supporting. first, the bill advances my long-standing priority of shifting the american health care system, so-called, from a sick care system to a genuine health care system, emphasizing prevention, wellness, and public health. it provides a $1 billion increase for the national institutes of health as well as major new funding for brain research and a new initiative to discover ways to prevent and cure alzheimer's disease. in addition, this bill allocates nearly $1 billion from the prevention and public health fund which i created it in the affordable care act, title 4, which i was in charge of drafting. there's been some confusion about this fund in the news reports so let me corr

that was democratic congresswoman rosa delauro on the house floor. what she doesn't mention is the fact that while she's talking about income inequality, she's worth up to $20 million. >> that's not fair. >> here to comment on this and more is stuart varney, celebrating his fourth year as host of "varney and company." >> this is after the fourth year, so we should move on. >> okay. get to it. >> let's talk about the staff inequality, how much each of your staff members are getting paid. until then, let's focus on what's going on with inequality when it comes to the threat on our economy. does she have a point? >> no, she does not have a point. income inequality, the income gap, put it like that, has been rising for about four decades. the gap has been widening. there are all kinds of factors g of the income gap. ms. delauro there is staking out the democrats' turf for this election year. she's saying income inequality is going to be the issue which we run on in 2014. there's a problem with that. not only is she an all-time millionairess herself, but

rosa delauro is exposing what fast track is really about and i yield time to representative delauro from the state of connecticut. ms. delauro: we owe you a debt of gratitude. i know what it means. i have been in this body -- this is my 24th year and years ago, i would spend my days in terms of one-minute speeches in my evenings in special orders and i know what it means and kind of time and effort that it takes but it's about your value you you -- value u.s. and who you are are and we owe you a bit of gratitude for spearheading this effort. every generation has faced their own time of testing, whether it's an economic panic, great depression, slavery, jim crow, civil war, cold war, there are times when our country is confronted with a crisis that poses a threat to our nation and our way of life. and congress needs to stand up and act. the test of our time is inequality. it is not too much to say that inequality threatens the continued existence of the middle class in america and even the american dream itself. the question before us now is are we going to continue to be the land of oppo