Orrin Hatch: “I sat here and listened to my dear colleague from Massachusetts, and almost everything he has spoken about is a flaw in…”

“I sat here and listened to my dear colleague from Massachusetts, and almost everything he has spoken about is a flaw in the current bankruptcy system we are trying to change. It is the current bankruptcy system that we have been trying to change for 8 solid years. And guess who one of the principal voices against changing it is? Why, none other than my distinguished friend from Massachusetts, and my distinguished friend from Illinois, who make these great populous arguments on the floor that sound so good. I do not want to characterize them in my Utah terminology, but they are not accurate. How is that for being a person who uses discretion? If you listened to the distinguished Senator from Massachusetts, you would think this country can spend trillions of dollars solving every person's problem. I have been here 29 years. I have never heard the distinguished Senator from Massachusetts once ask: Where are we going to get the money to pay for this? How do we pay for this? How do we justify it? It is easy to talk about taking care of everybody in every way, universal health care, and to decry a Medicare reform bill that adds no less than $400 billion, but maybe as much as $750 billion now-- according to CBO, OMB, and other analysts--and say it does nothing for the poor when that is exactly what it does do, a lot for the poor.”