Xavier Becerra: “I wish the gentleman from Oklahoma had been here 3 hours ago when we were asking for a chance to speak, to present a…”

“I wish the gentleman from Oklahoma had been here 3 hours ago when we were asking for a chance to speak, to present a budget, to not be gagged, to have a chance under the rules of the House of Representatives, the people's House, to debate. But under the Republican rule, which manages and controls all the time, we do not have an opportunity to present any plan because my colleagues will not give us a chance to present any plan. So what we have to deal with is what you give us. I remember 2 years ago we had a President who said, and this was during harder times, he said we are going to save Social Security first. It seems now we have a President and colleagues on the other side who say because we have hard economic times, and because we have to pass a budget, we have to take from Social Security first; take these tax cuts, that will go mostly to the well-to-do and large corporations, like Enron; take from Social Security first to fund programs like Star Wars, and you are going to take from education.”