Eliot Engel: “What have our Republican friends done since they have taken over Congress? They said they would give tax breaks to the…”

“What have our Republican friends done since they have taken over Congress? They said they would give tax breaks to the rich. They kept their promise. They said they would increase defense spending boondoggles. They kept their promise. They said they would help the rich and powerful and told them that they would continue corporate welfare. They kept their promise. But what have they done to the rest of us? They told senior citizens they would not touch Social Security or Medicare. They broke their promise. They told the students that they would not touch student loans or aid to education. They broke their promise. They told our veterans they would not harm their COLA's and their veterans' health care benefits. They broke their promise. They told the middle class they would not hurt the middle class. They broke their promise. They told the Nation's schoolchildren they would not rob school lunches, take them out of their mouth. They broke their promise. In short the Republicans kept their promises to the rich and powerful. They just broke their promise to everyone else. I say to my colleagues, 'Wait until you see what they're going to do to Medicare.'”