Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, this motion is basically truth in advertising. Let us put the provisions in and not backload it and have to pay later. The second thing is that this reconciliation bill ought to speak to our priorities; and I do not think that our priorities ought to be tax cuts today and tax cuts tomorrow and nothing else. We should speak to the fact that we want to pay down the national debt, that we want to preserve Social Security and Medicare and yes, put more money into education like the overwhelming majority of this body voted to do. Yet if we do not pass this motion, I am afraid that the reconciliation bill will do what the gentleman from California (Mr. Thomas), the chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, said. That is, he wants to put 15 pounds of sugar in a 10-pound bag. It is going to be 30 pounds of sugar in a 10-pound bag.”