Steve Buyer: “I had to come to the House floor. I had to come here because it is obvious that there are truths, there are nontruths. I…”

“I had to come to the House floor. I had to come here because it is obvious that there are truths, there are nontruths. I believe there are unequivocal statements of fact and there are truths that are self-evident. I now understand that the creators of this institution here put 'in God we trust' because we are going to have to trust God here because the facts are getting spun out so far. America watching this debate says, 'My gosh, I don't even know who to believe or what to believe. Listen to all these numbers.' Mr. Chairman, it is an attempt here by this side to somehow frame that they are the only ones who care about children and seniors, that they are the only ones who care about the poor. That is false, but that is politics. Let me tell my colleagues what the administration did. Confused by all these numbers? Treasury, in order to calculate these numbers that this side of the aisle is using, calculated family income not the way one calculates their family income when they work.”