John Tanner said "Well, it is a shell game, somebody called it three card monty, when you low ball a bill that you know is going to cost more than that, but you do it to fit it into some preconceived notion of a budget so you can basically fool the American people to make them think you are being fiscally responsible and not doing something foolish financially, and yet you are. And we saw this and we saw the administration, the administration that we are under now, they knew better on the Medicare bill and told the Congress it was going to cost $350 billion over time, and really they knew it was about $750 or $800 billion. That is the kind of thing we are talking about, because then people do not know what to believe. Mr. Cardoza said earlier, We can do better than this. This place is broken and our 12-point plan is our attempt to fix it." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordDecember 17, 2005

Well, it is a shell game, somebody called it three card monty, when you low ball a bill that you know is going to cost more than that, but you do it to fit it into some preconceived notion of a budget so you can basically fool the American people to make them think you are being fiscally responsible and not doing something foolish financially, and yet you are. And we saw this and we saw the administration, the administration that we are under now, they knew better on the Medicare bill and told the Congress it was going to cost $350 billion over time, and really they knew it was about $750 or $800 billion. That is the kind of thing we are talking about, because then people do not know what to believe. Mr. Cardoza said earlier, We can do better than this. This place is broken and our 12-point plan is our attempt to fix it.

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John Tanner

Tennessee

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