On the recordFebruary 27, 2017
I welcome the majority leader and everyone back after the first district work period of the year. Tomorrow night, the President will give his first address to a joint session of Congress. I will have more to say later this afternoon at the National Press Club about the first month of the Trump administration and what we can expect from the speech. For now, I will just say that if past is prologue, the President will come to Congress with a populist message in an attempt to cloak what has been a hard- right, anti-working person administration. His words are populist. He talks as though he favors the working men and women of America, but his actions are straight out of the hard- right playbook, which makes it easier for the special interests and puts greater burdens on the backs of the working class and the middle class. Every American should be looking at what this President is doing, not saying, because, thus far, the two have been vastly different.
