Joe Cunningham: “I want my colleagues to look up in the web page www.dsausa.org. It stands for Democratic Socialists of America. In…”

“I want my colleagues to look up in the web page www.dsausa.org. It stands for Democratic Socialists of America. In there, the Progressive Caucus, 58 Members of the Democratic party belong to that. What do they want, Mr. Speaker? This is their own 12-point agenda, not mine, but their 12-point agenda. They want government control of health care. They tried that when they had the White House, the House, and the Senate. They wanted government socialized health care. It failed miserably. They want government control of education and environmental laws. They even want government control of private property. They want union over small business. They want the highest possible socialized spending, and they want the highest possible progressive tax that they can get. The highest progressive tax, income tax. That is what the Democratic Party is controlled by, their leadership, the Democratic Socialists of America, the Progressive Caucus. Guess what, one of their agenda is also to cut defense by 50 percent to pay for that spending. We fought to save Medicare, and the Democrats fought against it, dead fought against it, $100 million of union ads against it. In 1993 when they had the White House, they had the Senate, and they had the House, they raised taxes. They promised a middle-class tax cut. What did they do? They increased the tax on the middle class. They increased the tax on Social Security.”