David Price: “It is, indeed. But the Russian role model seems alive and well as we look at the development of the American economy and…”

“It is, indeed. But the Russian role model seems alive and well as we look at the development of the American economy and where we may be going. Mr. Speaker, I am sure my colleague will agree that our Republican friends know this is a very, very unpopular piece of legislation. It is striking, isn't it? They decided that they were going to go into the hole $1.5 trillion, forget about revenue neutrality. They are going to go into the hole and borrow $1.5 trillion. Even with that, they have not been able to write a bill that most of the American people feel a benefit from. It is extraordinary. Well, the fact is that most of the American people won't benefit from this bill. I think they are on to that. The latest polling shows that Americans oppose this bill by a margin of 2 to 1. That is, of course, before they have even felt the effects of this bill. I think Republicans know that this opposition is only going to get stronger the more people figure out what is in this bill. That may be why they have rushed this thing to passage in the most chaotic legislative process I can ever remember. They released thousands of pages of text on this bill last Friday and expected to vote on it today, of course. Maybe that is the reason why they held no hearings. The less people know, the better. Maybe that is why we have had almost no debate. Maybe that is why they won't even allow for a complete scoring of the bill by the Joint Committee on Taxation or the Congressional Budget Office.…”