Bill Cassidy actually said...

"I am very sympathetic to what these small business owners said, which is, I have a small business, and I have thin margins, and I have three employees."

"It is false compassion if we put forward a plan which cannot be sustained."

"I think my final assessment is that it is those lower-income people who do not have the benefit now, that we have limited capacity to raise payroll taxes if we are to make current obligations."

"I am very concerned about our ability to pay our current obligations and wonder again if we just are not supplanting with Federal tax dollars for some folks--not for all, because some do not have the ..."