Political Quotes

“talk about the swamp. All of the folks who voted in this election do not have the swamp in Washington, DC--they are watching this happen right in front of their eyes tonight. We have a bunch of amendments that were dropped in by lobbyists here last night that we haven't seen, except that we received a list from them, and we have illegible amendments now at the desk that, even if we could read them, we wouldn't be able to. It just doesn't make any sense. I will tell you something else that doesn't make any sense. It doesn't make any sense that, in our economy, 90 percent of our folks-- the bottom 90 percent--earned the same amount of income as the top 10 percent. The top 10 percent earned 50 percent of the income in this country, and the bottom 90 percent earned the other 50 percent. You can see the direction that these lines have headed over a number of years. That is the issue that we confront in our economy. That is what we all should be working on in a bipartisan way to try to address. Unfortunately, instead of improving the circumstances for people in the bottom 90 percent of earners, the decision has been made, because of an economic philosophy that has to do with trickle-down economics, to give the benefits to the people who are doing pretty well--and not just pretty well but better than they have done since 1928, and we stated earlier today on this floor what a miracle the tax policies were in the early 1920s. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Perdue).…”