Political Quotes

“Let me say that the goal of the bill is positive, but how it is achieved is just flat wrong. To pay for this legislation, what we do is go straight to Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas and take $1.9 billion a year of potential revenue to those States to uplift their people to pay for this bill. Let me be specific about Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana. They rank 48th, 49th, and 50th in terms of quality of life for their residents. They rank 1, 2, and 5 in terms of their African-American population. So, what are we doing here, in this time of racial inequity? We are going to Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana and taking $1.9 billion a year without sharing any of that revenue with their States where: they can improve education, where all three rank last; they can improve healthcare, where all three States rank last; and they can improve their environment, where all three States are in the bottom one-third. So, all I am saying is, at some point, equity demands that those States get their fair share.”