Manuel Lujan: “I especially want to start by giving thanks to our colleague from Hawaii for asking us to come together and have a…”

“I especially want to start by giving thanks to our colleague from Hawaii for asking us to come together and have a conversation with the American people. I am a proud Senator from the State of New Mexico--from a small, rural community in the northern part of the State--and I wanted to come down to the floor to continue this conversation as we have heard from colleagues already talk about what this is and what this isn't. It seems to me, when my Republican colleagues last did this, what I heard in townhall after townhall across New Mexico was that, from Democrats, Republicans, Independents, voters, constituents, they just wanted to hear the truth. They wanted to hear what this is and what this is not. So I am going to start off by holding up this report that says that almost 60 percent of the benefit of extending the Republican tax policies will go to the top 0.1 percent of the wealthiest in America-- 0.1 percent of the wealthiest in America--and I am not talking about the other 99.9 percent. Now let's define how much money people who are in the top 0.1 percent in America are making. They are doing very well. They are making $2.8 million per year. It is a lot of money, and they are successful, but it is under the guise of giving middle-class families, hard-working families all across America a tax cut when the benefit goes to the top 0.1 percent. If you are making 2.8 million bucks a year, yes, this is for you. The American people just want to hear the truth.…”