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I ask my colleague, my friend, the chairman of the Finance Committee a question. I hear what you are saying. Do I hear you correctly that you are prepared to discuss this legislation in committee?

Despair is not an option.

We will not accept authoritarianism. We will not accept kleptocracy. We’re here to make it clear that we are going to fight back and we are going to win.

We are here to say loudly and clearly that in our great nation we will not accept oligarchy.

We have heard for months now that this administration only hires the very best people. Really? Let's look at exhibit A. This is the guy? This guy? This is the guy that keeps swinging around his big chainsaw? This is the guy who is going to…

I think this is a prelude not only to cutting benefits but to privatizing Social Security itself.

Why do you make it look like it’s a broken, dysfunctional system? The reason is to get people to lose faith in the system and then you can give it over to Wall Street.

Let's be clear: the Dept. of Ed. provides resources to 26 million children living in high-poverty school districts; Pell Grants to over 7 million students; & funding for millions of children with disabilities. Closing its doors would be a…

I mean, it is really unspeakable. It really is and I think the American people are sick and tired of the wealthiest guy in the world running the United States government and calling, in this case, a guy who put his life on the line to…

So, I would say without any doubt that you have a government right now. You know, Lincoln talked about a government of the people, by the people, for the people. I think it's fair to say you have a government today of the billionaires, by…

The idea that we have oligarchs, people with incredible wealth trashing programs that working people desperately need is, I think, unacceptable to the vast majority of the American people.

I think this is a prelude not only to cutting benefits, but to privatizing Social Security itself.

That will be a disaster. That will mean that millions of people who are, you know, calling up, they're not going to get an answer.

They have already laid off 2,500 employees of the Social Security Administration.

I think all of those questions creates a lot of economic uncertainty.

Cutting off humanitarian aid to millions of civilians is a war crime.

This country belongs to all of us, not just the few. We must fight back.

Today, the oligarchs and the billionaire class are getting richer and richer and have more and more power.