Pedro Sanchez: “I always tell my friends who ask me, what do the Blue Dogs do, I tell them, we are sort of like the bean counters, the…”

“I always tell my friends who ask me, what do the Blue Dogs do, I tell them, we are sort of like the bean counters, the accountants, the people who really want to set the record straight about what is happening with the money issues of the Congress. We do not want to do a lot of smoke and mirrors; we just want to talk about what it takes to do what we want to do and have a fair vote up and down on what we want. Many of us said to that tax cut that the biggest problem with it was it was done on rosy projections at a time when all of us knew that the economy was stalling on us, and we just knew that those numbers were not going to work.”