Ron Wyden: “Not for a minute. The reason my colleague's questions are so important is that this is, certainly, an example of what…”

“Not for a minute. The reason my colleague's questions are so important is that this is, certainly, an example of what seems to turn up every few hours, practically in the middle of the night. My colleague raised a very good point with respect to the development of this bill. I mean, we are talking about making $10 trillion worth of changes in tax policy on the fly--without a hearing. The Senator's colleagues have said--Chairman Enzi and the Budget Committee--and I have heard it several times on the other side--that there were 70 hearings on this bill. There was not one on this piece of legislation. It certainly didn't examine this issue. It didn't examine the question, for example, of what is going to happen to people with this dagger to the Affordable Care Act. I can tell this to my colleague because he is right to talk about how one brings parties together. I know my colleague did that as part of a major bill on the Veterans' Affairs Committee with Senator McCain. Our former colleague Bill Bradley mentioned that when he wrote a tax bill, he flew all over the country to work with Republicans. In this case, apropos of my colleague's question, not only did no one do that sort of thing, but they wouldn't even walk down the corridor to talk about working with the other side.”