Political Quotes

“I appreciate the comments of Senator Carper and Senator Wyden and all the members of the tax-writing committee with Senator Stabenow. I believe a couple more Senators will join us--I believe Senators Cardin and Cantwell. Thanks for the work you do, Senator Stabenow, on this issue and so many others. We all know now what the Trump tax scam did. We know it was a giveaway to the richest people in the country. It was a $1.5 trillion tax cut. Seventy percent of it went to the wealthiest people in the country. We know that. We pretty much knew that in the beginning. We know the President said all kinds of things--one lie after another-- about it. I want to tell two stories. One of them is from when I was at the White House with the President and half a dozen other Senators sitting in the President's Cabinet Room when he was talking about the tax bill. He said to me and to other Senators that every American will get at least $4,000 more in their paycheck--at least. I guess he meant people in Gallipolis and Ironton, OH, and Portsmouth and Cleveland and Lansing, MI, and Kalamazoo and everywhere else. He said everybody was going to get $4,000. That is what he said when the bill was being written. When he signed it, he said everybody was going to start seeing a lot more money in their paychecks. Well, he lied. No surprise there-- he always does that. He lies about a lot of things.…”