Chris Murphy: “I just think in the end this is about choices, Mr. Altmire. Mr. Ryan was talking about it before. This is about whether…”

“I just think in the end this is about choices, Mr. Altmire. Mr. Ryan was talking about it before. This is about whether you want to continue to throw billions upon billions of dollars into a war in Iraq that, frankly, is probably making this country less safe rather than more safe as it breeds terrorism and Islamic jihadists within the boundaries of Iraq. It's about whether you want to continue to give away $12 to $18 billion of tax breaks to the oil companies that the oil companies themselves say they don't need to continue putting products into the American market. Do you want to continue to subsidize the drug industry, which is making out like bandits off of a prescription drug program that pads their pockets and their profits, as we just found out from a new report from the Government Oversight Committee that tells us that we're wasting $15 billion a year on the Medicare prescription drug program. You want to help drug companies or poor kids? Do you want to help oil companies or poor kids? Do you want to throw more money in a religious civil war, or do you want to help poor kids?”