Joe Biden: “If someone today came to the floor and proposed a $600 billion tax cut for the top 1 percent of the American…”

“If someone today came to the floor and proposed a $600 billion tax cut for the top 1 percent of the American taxpayers--assume the tax cut had not passed. Just picture this: Someone walked on the floor today, as we are about to vote on an $87 billion supplemental, and said: I propose a $600 billion tax cut between now and the year 2010 for the top 1 percent of the American taxpayers--and did it, again, at this moment, when we will have a $500- plus billion deficit for next year, and expanding national security demands, not decreasing national security demands, well beyond Iraq, and expanding homeland security needs, not diminishing homeland security needs, and while the House of Representatives and the Senate are in conference about to report back, I assume, a multibillion-dollar relief bill as we need for prescription drugs.”