Political Quotes

“it is hard to take my colleagues on the other side of the aisle seriously when they give speech after speech after speech complaining about the deficit and then support this reconciliation bill that adds trillions of dollars to the national debt. The bill not only increases the deficit, but also 4 million students who will lose their Pell grants, 18 million children who could potentially lose their free school lunch, 13.7 million people who are set to lose their healthcare, and everybody loses when the National Institutes of Health research is cut. This big, bad billionaire's bill steals educational opportunities from students, cuts healthcare and food from working families, all to fund tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires and then increases the national debt. Mr. Speaker, to paraphrase Harry Truman: This is not fearmongering. It is the truth, but they just think it is fearmongering. Vote ``no.''”