Sam Gejdenson: “I love my friend's compassion. This is a Chamber that ought to have compassion. We ought to have compassion for 45…”

“I love my friend's compassion. This is a Chamber that ought to have compassion. We ought to have compassion for 45 million Americans that do not have health care, for the hundreds of thousands of working families that cannot afford to send their kids to college, for senior citizens who do not have a drug benefit. If we take the Democratic proposal here, I do not know how many family farms are worth more than $4 million, but I would say that when we add the cut in the percentage and the $4 million exemption, that is about as much compassion as we need until we have taken care of the poorest of the poor. To listen to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, if you have two children, one lives in Beverly Hills and the other one lives on the edge of poverty. What we need to do today is rush and give some more help to the folks in Beverly Hills. The difference between the two proposals is that the Democratic proposal helps small business, helps farmers, helps people with $4 million worth of assets, but leaves a little in the Treasury to make sure that senior citizens have social security and Medicare, that maybe we can help more kids get a college education, and maybe some day people in this country can expect health care coverage.”