Mike Crapo: “The two health care bills, the one the President has already signed into law plus this one we are considering will spend…”

“The two health care bills, the one the President has already signed into law plus this one we are considering will spend another $2.6 trillion over the next 10 years. In order to pay for it, one of the things that these bills include is over $600 billion in new taxes. The President has pledged there would be no taxes on the middle class, and he defined that to be anybody who makes less than $200,000 as an individual or $250,000 as a couple or a family. All this motion to commit does is say: Let's take those taxes out of these bills. There are 73 million Americans who fall squarely in the middle class who make less than $200,000 a year as an individual or $250,000 as a couple who will pay the burden of these taxes if we do not make this change. It is time for this Congress----”