Rep. Rahm Emanuel: “The truth is, over the last 5 or 6 years pharmaceutical products have gone up somewhere close to four times, three times…”

Question number one to the minority whip, I would say to you that, of course, there are three branches of government. I don't think anybody in room or in the Chamber needs that explanation. It is the Vice President's lawyer that needs that…

It's ironic that it took 4 years to close this offshore loophole. But we are shutting it down and paying for all these other benefits to ensure that this company and other companies like it who set up in the Cayman Islands do not go around…

First of all, it wasn't part of welfare reform. Welfare reform had a 1-year transitional for Medicaid. It wasn't part of that, which is a point you made. Second is, SCHIP was so successful, while the rest of the population actually had an…

I would like to say that it's true, there is an important constitutional precedent here, and that's why the Vice President should never have claimed that he wasn't part of the executive branch, something any eighth grader knows.