David Perdue: “I come from a different world. I come from the real world. I have been here just a couple of years, but this sort of…”

“I come from a different world. I come from the real world. I have been here just a couple of years, but this sort of rhetoric that we have heard on the floor of the Senate over the last few weeks is amazing to me. The disinformation, the known misleading statements that are made--that doesn't exist for very long in the real world because there are rules and regulations out there where that is taken care of. But it seems that if you are good at it in this body and can get away with it long enough, that what Vladimir Lenin once said is true, and that is this: It doesn't matter what you say is true; it only matters that you say it and say it and say it, and pretty soon, to the common folks in your country, it becomes true. Well, I think we have lived through a century where we have done nothing but disproved that as a free society here and as a leader of the free world. I think what is at stake tonight in this vote is bigger than just a few changes in our Tax Code. Good grief. We can work for the next 10 years and not clean up every detail in this Tax Code, but this is a first step to bringing sanity back to our country. Let me put a little perspective on this. Let's talk about what President Trump inherited when he took office in January of this year. We had 8 years of the lowest economic growth in the history of the United States--1.9 percent. We had the lowest workforce participation rate in over 40 years.…”