Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I thank Senator Moran, who graciously gave me some time, and I want to briefly talk about one other subject. I am the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, and I am pleased to serve with my colleague from Louisiana who also serves on the committee and will be a conferee on the tax bill. I would like to bring up a matter the President introduced yesterday. The President has long said that there was going to be a ``fantastic tax bill''--his words, not mine--and obviously the American people don't see it that way. Overwhelmingly, we see in surveys--I saw it in townhall meetings over the weekend, in a community Hillary Clinton won, in a community where Donald Trump was extremely popular--that this tax bill was incredibly unpopular. The President admitted yesterday that there was a ``tiny little sliver'' of Americans who, as he said, ``just through circumstances maybe don't get the full benefit of the tax bill.'' I am not sure what tax plan he is talking about, but it sure can't be the one that hikes taxes on middle-class folks that Republicans are working out in the conference right now. So I want to get to the numbers, just briefly, from the independent, nonpartisan referees at the Joint Committee on Taxation. These are the folks we pay. The numbers they have given us really aren't in line with what the President is talking about when he says only a ``tiny little sliver'' of Americans are going to be hurt and come out behind.…”