Jay Inslee: “I think she is correct in what happened, that when the Republicans had a penurious proposal last year and then went home…”

“I think she is correct in what happened, that when the Republicans had a penurious proposal last year and then went home without adopting one, and caught heck when they went home, they improved their position. This is a better bill, I want to agree with her on that. But there is another group that is being abused by this failure today, not just the unemployed. It is the unrepresented. Because when we bring a bill to the floor where two or three people get into a room and decide what the bill is going to be, and bring it out to this floor and tell the American people that that is their only solution, that is a form of tyranny. It is a step down the road to a government that does not respect democracy. Unfortunately, it is the first time it is happening, and it is going to happen over and over and over again during this Congress. That is why I am here today raising my voice against it, saying that we cannot have a democracy if we bring a bill to the floor and do not have an alternative for the American people to consider. It is the wrong thing to do.”