Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman. He is absolutely correct. It used to be, I think just 2 or 3 months ago, that, on this floor, you would hear the sound of the deficit hawks. You would hear them screaming, crying out about the huge deficit. And, indeed, we do have a huge deficit. If you take a look at the growth of the deficit, this is 2027. At the end of this tax bill, it is growing at $500 billion a year without the additional deficit created by the tax bill. They would cry. They would lament the situation. Suddenly--maybe it is because it is winter, and, like the Canadian geese, they flew south--they have disappeared. They are nowhere to be found around Washington, D.C. But I suspect, with the new year, as the days grow longer, as it warms up, the deficit hawks will return, and they will come back with a vengeance, just as the gentleman said. Wait a minute. The gentleman didn't say it. He repeated what the Speaker of the House of Representatives said, what our Republican colleagues voted for in their budget proposal just ahead of this tax proposal. They said it very, very clearly. They intend to take $500 billion out of Medicare, right out of the healthcare for seniors. They intend--they did it in their budget. They did it in their words. The Speaker did it in his own words.…”