Political Quotes

“I am coming to the floor now because we will not have an opportunity to debate on the payroll tax cuts because the vote is going to be at 2:30 and that time is taken. I think it is important for the American public to look at what is happening in Washington right now. There is not a disagreement in Washington about whether we want people to continue to receive this tax cut. The disagreement is, should it come out of Social Security? Should we continue to undermine Social Security or should we do it a different way? That is No. 1. No. 2 is, if we are going to borrow $117 billion against our children knowing that we have significant waste, fraud, abuse, and duplication in the Federal Government of in excess of $350 billion a year, should we not eliminate some of that, pay for this rather than borrow the money? So we have the posturing between the two parties based on the election that is coming to create a predicate that some people only care for the rich and some people only care for those who are less fortunate, which is all smoke and mirrors. There is unanimity that we want this to continue. So what the American people are not hearing is the real debate.…”