Joe Cunningham: “one of the things that the other side will try and do as far as smoke and mirrors is they will talk about the…”

“one of the things that the other side will try and do as far as smoke and mirrors is they will talk about the President's request. Republicans brought forward the President's budget, even his tax increase. The President made false assumptions. He increased taxes, he took Social Security money to balance his budget, and he used false assumptions such as the gas prices would stay the same, and guess what? We know what happened to them. They did not vote for it, but yet they use his numbers. An example is special education. The most the Democrats when they were in power ever increased special education was 6 percent. With Medicaid, in 5 years, we put it up to 18 percent. We increased special education by $500 million this year, but yet the President's budget, which none of them voted for, wanted over $1 billion, so Republicans are now cutting special education. That is the logic, and that and tax breaks for the rich is to fool the uninformed. It is a sham.”