Robert Menendez actually said...

"There is a difference between high wealth individuals who may have acceptable limitations and regular middle-class families that this would be an economic body blow to."

"Budgets are also about values, from my perspective. It reflects what we believe as a country."

"That is a proposal that would impose a significant and, from my perspective, unfair tax increase on millions of families in my home State of New Jersey and across a number of high-cost States in the c..."

"long-term unemployment could have serious consequences for individuals and their families and can permanently impair the growth prospects for our economy."