Bob Menendez: “I am here to represent the working people in my district, the schoolteacher dealing with an overcrowded class working to…”

“I am here to represent the working people in my district, the schoolteacher dealing with an overcrowded class working to teach 30 students algebra, the waitress at my local diner serving tables, the police officer risking his life every day, these are the hard-working people that I am fighting to give a tax break to. So when I look at a Republican plan that gives a tax-free inheritance to a billionaire's son, and an average tax cut of over $28,000 to those making $900,000 a year while giving, on average, only several hundred dollars per family to the vast middle class, that just does not seem fair to me. I do not think that most American families would take all of their projected earnings for the next 10 years and spend every last dime up front leaving no room for ill health or a rainy day. Unlike the Republicans, most American families would never do this without first preparing a budget. But that is what the President wants us to do here, blindly follow him and leap off the budgetary cliff. The Democratic plan gives everyone a fair tax break, leaves enough money to pay down the debt and invest in the future. The Republican plan gives away our future so that a few can share the lion's share of everyone's hard-earned surplus.”