John Kerry: “all that the Senator from Texas has said sure sounds good when it gets a one-sided airing. But, fortunately, the Senate…”

“all that the Senator from Texas has said sure sounds good when it gets a one-sided airing. But, fortunately, the Senate has an ability to look for the truth here. And the truth is that this is not a Democrat bill, this came out of the Commerce Committee 19-1--19-1--in a bipartisan vote. And the fact is that the Senator from Texas talks about wanting to take only one-third of the money. But he doesn't just take one-third. No, he just doesn't tell the full story. The Senator from Texas is not prepared to let the Senate and the American people know what his amendment really does. So we will show you what it really does. It cleverly, in the first 4 or 5 years, takes one-third, but then it builds up, and over the course of the next 20 years it takes 53 percent over 5 years, 80 percent over 5 years, 79 percent over another 5 years, and 73 percent over the next 5 years. So consistently for a period of 20 years it takes more than 50 percent, and for 15 of those years more than 75 percent. That is extraordinary. He stands here and says to the Members of the Senate, ``All I want is''--what? 33 percent, one-third. That is just not the truth. The truth is that this amendment of the Senator from Texas not only goes to the people he talks about, those working Americans who will get so brutally attacked, but he is going to give money back to people who, under the aberrations of the marriage penalty, actually get a bonus.…”