Earl Blumenauer: “I support the President's efforts.”

I find this hearing very meaningful.

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.

I have 190 days left in Congress, so I have been spending time on issues that bring people together rather than divide them.

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