Sheldon Whitehouse: “I was very pleased to be here for the remarks of my colleagues and friends, and I would just respond by saying that we…”

“I was very pleased to be here for the remarks of my colleagues and friends, and I would just respond by saying that we are all for growth. We are all for growth of the American economy. I think, on this side, we are just a little bit less sure that you grow the economy by growing the share of the economy that goes to the superrich and to big corporations or that you grow the economy by growing benefits to corporations that move jobs from America overseas, and I am pretty confident that on our side we don't believe the solution to the deficit is a tax bill that raises the deficit.”