Rob Andrews: “They ask: What did you do this week? Did you get any bills that would bring more customers in? Did you help me grow more…”

“They ask: What did you do this week? Did you get any bills that would bring more customers in? Did you help me grow more jobs? Now, here's what we did: We adjusted the CBO baseline for the consideration of future revenue policies of the United States. This is a very interesting graduate school debate. Maybe some day if we're flush with cash again it would be a good policy debate. It is the wrong bill at the wrong time, and it shouldn't be on the House floor. Let's at least put up for a vote the four specific ideas brought to this Chamber by the President of the United States to regrow the middle class and put Americans back to work. And when we've done the real job that we're sent here to do, then we can get to the graduate school seminar on congressional budgeting.”