Earl Blumenauer: “I feel sometimes like I'm in an alternative universe.”

I find this hearing very meaningful.

We have $163 billion a year that is not paid by the top 1 percent of American taxpayers.

House Democrats have collectively shown an impenetrable commitment to the people of sub-Saharan Africa and Haiti.

These things aren't going to get enacted into law, they are not going to make a difference to the American people. It is a distraction, it is a sideshow.