Political Quotes

“I can't tell you how much I long for a discussion of ideas, an honest and open discussion of real ideas in this Chamber as opposed to talking points. Clearly, we're not going to be getting that here this evening. What we've heard so far is this bill is going to dismantle Medicare. I encourage my colleagues across the aisle to actually read the bill before they come in and talk about it. And page 4 specifically says we don't cut Medicare in this bill. We've heard the President say that Social Security checks might not go out on August 3. That's just false. The President has every legal authority and the money available to him to send those checks out. If he wants to, those checks will go out on August 3. We've heard the country will default on our debt if we don't raise the debt ceiling. Not true. The authority is there. The money is there. We have plenty of money with which to pay the interest on our debt. There will be no default on our debt. We heard the President say he's going to cut $4 trillion from spending. But when pressed on it, he admitted that the spending cuts this year were actually $2 billion. Let's put that in perspective. Four trillion is $4,000 billion, and the President admits that only $2 billion of that is this year. {time} 1600 We've heard today from my colleagues on the other side, Mr.…”