Chris Van Hollen: “This is a time for choosing. We have to reduce our deficit. We have to get the budget in the balance. The question is…”

“This is a time for choosing. We have to reduce our deficit. We have to get the budget in the balance. The question is, how we do this? And we believe that it is a corruption of the Constitution to write into the Constitution itself a provision that says a majority vote can cut Medicare and Social Security but you need a two-thirds undemocratic vote to close a corporate tax loophole for the purpose of reducing the deficit. I yield 1 minute to gentlewoman from California (Ms. Lee).”