Pete Stark: “I am a liberal. More than half of the families in my district have a labor union member in their household. They work…”

“I am a liberal. More than half of the families in my district have a labor union member in their household. They work hard and they make very little money. They are in the vast majority in this country, and they are not getting any benefit from this bill. Many of them, a majority of them, they send their children to parochial schools, wish they had the money to send them to private schools if they could find scholarships. But the fact is that less than 6 percent of the wealthiest Americans will get anything out of this. So it is those labor union people, those hardworking public schoolteachers, who the Republicans would turn their backs on and cut their salaries and deny them increased funding, that I am proud to support. I am proud to support the working Americans in this country who are getting nothing out of this except to have their hard-earned dollars drained so that the very rich Republicans, and if that is class warfare, let it be.”