Political Quotes

“Madam Chairman, millions of Americans around the country are focused on March Madness and the basketball Final Four showdown this weekend. But for our Nation's seniors and the middle class, the real March madness is happening right here on the House floor with the Republican budget. This is the GOP's burden of March madness with its own final four: First, end Medicare guarantee for millions of seniors so that they're out of luck now in Medicare; Then you move on and you force Grandma and Grandpa to pay more for all of their coverage or forego it in its entirety; Next, what you do is you put billionaires first. You protect their tax breaks. You put them right up there on the top of the list of the most important people that need help in America today; Then, fourth, you subsidize Big Oil by keeping the $4 billion for tax subsidies in the budget while cutting, by 85 percent in the Ryan budget, the subsidies, the funding for wind and solar and renewable energy. Tax breaks for Big Oil; cut the programs for clean energy. {time} 1650 So here is the completed bracket for the Republicans: ending the Medicare guarantee; abandoning Grandma and Grandpa; subsidizing Big Oil; and putting billionaires first. That is the Republican Final Four, and it's also the final answer for America. Yet, unlike the NCAA tournament, the Republican budget doesn't pit these priorities against each other--they're all winners in the eyes of the GOP.…”