Hank Johnson: “Yes. Thank you. So we've got a group of folks who were right here as you say, Congressman Ellison, they were right here…”

“Yes. Thank you. So we've got a group of folks who were right here as you say, Congressman Ellison, they were right here in this very Chamber, and they had the leadership up until 2006; and they aided and abetted this country's decline and all of the things that contributed to it. And so but now they want to dictate the solutions to getting us out of this morass. And it just doesn't make sense. I hope the American people are paying great attention because my friends on the other side of the aisle, the only thing that they propose is more tax cuts for the wealthiest 10 percent, and that's certainly not going to work. We've got to take care of our basic safety net. We've got people in this country who've lost their jobs, they've lost their homes. They are on the street--families, no place to live, no food. And so we've got to fix those things while we also pay attention to the future needs of this country preparing us for the global economy and the long-term future. And with that, Congressman. I'm going to yield back.”