Brendan Boyle: “Mr. Speaker, it has been a long debate. I think we started, I don't know, 48 hours ago or whatever it is by now.…”

“Mr. Speaker, it has been a long debate. I think we started, I don't know, 48 hours ago or whatever it is by now. However, make no mistake about it. This is not a debate that should have been happening in the middle of the night. It shouldn't have happened in the middle of the night last night in the Rules Community, and it shouldn't be happening in the middle of the night tonight. Frankly, if I had a bill that I was proud of, I would want to put it on when people are paying most attention. I can understand, however, why there are some folks on the other side who might want folks to not quite pay attention to what is in this bill. Mr. Speaker, you have heard speaker after speaker on this side, however, expose the damage that this bill for billionaires will do: 13.6 million Americans at least would lose their health insurance because of devastating cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. Another one-half trillion dollars more will be cut in Medicare. There are all sorts of cuts to nutrition programs and food assistance, education programs and Head Start. The list goes on and on. Why? It is to subsidize tax cuts for the top 1 percent. For the bottom 10 percent, we learned in the last 24 hours they won't even get a little bit of a tax cut. In fact, when all of the components of this bill are factored in, they will be 4 percent worse off than they were before.”