Chuck Schumer: “It is so unfair to say there were other things more important in the bill than helping struggling families. Before my…”

“It is so unfair to say there were other things more important in the bill than helping struggling families. Before my friend from Nevada came in, I was talking about an article in the New York Times about working families, about the income level we are talking about, and how one family had been saving $5 in an envelope every week so that their son might have a party at his holy communion for all his friends and family. And now they can't save that $5 anymore because taxes are going up and the costs are going up. To say that family is not struggling is amazing.”