Political Quotes

“Thank you, Mr. President. I rise to talk about an issue that some of us have talked about, but I think it is an issue that is barely breaking through now. There has been a lot of discussion in the debate so far about various aspects of the bill. We know the bill in its current form is about 142 pages, I guess, and more than 60 of those pages deal with one topic--Medicaid. So this is basically a Medicaid bill and a tax cut bill, and the two are not just referred to on a regular basis in the text, but I would argue they are actually in conflict with one another. I was on the floor last night showing a chart that indicated that the top 400 households in the country would get a tax cut of $33 billion. Just imagine that. Four hundred families get $33 billion out of the bill--the House bill, but it hasn't changed substantially at all when it comes to tax cuts--and then on top of that, the Medicaid cuts in just four States add up to the same number. So we have $33 billion in cuts on Medicaid for 4 States and $33 billion in tax cuts for 400 families. If you are within the sound of my voice and you are one of those 400 families, sorry, but I don't think you deserve a tax cut. Here is another way of looking at it.…”