Political Quotes

“Absolutely, Representative Levin. Let me start out by thanking you for this Special Order. And that letter is just one in 58,000 people, off the top of my head, that will be immediately affected by our inability to expand unemployment insurance. That's one story. As you indicated, it's a person who is from Madison, Wisconsin, well educated, and cannot find a job in this recession. I just think it is really curious, and I guess I would like to engage in a dialogue with you about this, you being the ranking member on Ways and Means, maybe you can help me understand a little bit better. Our colleagues in the majority, the optic and the narrative in the country for them is they want to preserve benefits for millionaires and billionaires. They want to preserve corporate tax expenditure benefits for corporations. {time} 1900 They want to maintain foreign profits for expatriated funds. They want to maintain a very high tax exemption for estates over $5 million. They want to maintain capital gains benefits, benefits on dividends. So I'm just curious, Representative Levin, why they don't want to provide this governmental benefit for unemployed people. This is very distressing to me when I consider who the unemployed are. When I think about the people the majority party wants to preserve benefits for and then when I get an optic of the people who would most likely benefit from this unemployment insurance, there is a stark contrast.…”