Charles Rangel: “I was saying that this was a pig in the poke, p-o-k-e, and he was saying that this was reduced to writing, his…”

“I was saying that this was a pig in the poke, p-o-k-e, and he was saying that this was reduced to writing, his proposals. It does not make it more accurate just because he has been able to reduce it to words. It is words that are irresponsible. We cannot talk about the President's increase in taxes without talking about a package of benefits that the President has in this package. But I think the American people, all I can ask them to do is that if you are sincere in the resolution, vote for it, because I am convinced that what you have done is to create a resolution to embarrass the President that has taken all of the facts as relate to the benefit of his budget and stripped that off and just talked about the pain of operating government. Anybody that would vote for this standing alone would be very, very silly.”