Political Quotes

“Madam Leader, you raised a very important point early on here about the way in which--I just heard you ask to reach out to Republicans to sit down and talk about how to structure a decent tax reform, not just a tax cut for the wealthy. My understanding is the Republicans have not even offered a moment--a second--to discuss these tax bills with any of us, nor have they had even one hearing on the most consequential economic policy that this Nation could put forward. Not a hearing at all, but rushing out secretly. Today, I understand they had a markup, but no witnesses, other than someone to answer questions as to the impact. And there has been discussion about the past major tax cut of Ronald Reagan's in 1986, in which we heard that there were 2 years of hearings all around the Nation and, I guess, more than 30 hearings in Congress before that major tax bill passed in 1986. But now here we are rushing this huge monumental and very detrimental tax bill through. Now, that is what I have heard, and I am not in the leadership, but, as far as I know, they haven't talked to you.”