George Miller: “It is not only the appearance now, today, afterward. It is what was put forth to the Members of this House. Members of…”

“It is not only the appearance now, today, afterward. It is what was put forth to the Members of this House. Members of this House thought they were voting on a good bill to allow for the deductibility of 25 percent of the health costs for individuals, for self-employed individuals, in this country, and yet what do they find out? That that bill was now gamed by the Speaker, for the interests of Mr. Murdoch, by the Senate, for the specific purposes of providing camouflage, so under the cover, without anyone knowing this, this provision could be written into law, and Mr. Murdoch could gain apparently what is around $63 million of benefit. The tragedy is that that $63 million now comes out of the very hide of the deductibility, as you pointed out, between this and the billionaires' tax break that was in that bill, which we did know about and we did object to, and unfortunately, we could not get the Republicans on the other side to agree to, these people maybe could be allowed a deductibility of 30 percent of their health care costs, or 35 percent, for the billions of dollars that was put into this legislation, all under the guise that we are doing something nice for the self-employed, which everybody in the House agreed with. But they gamed that with the secret deal here for Mr. Murdoch, and one clearly has a very direct connection to the Speaker of the House of Representatives.”