Sen. Chuck Schumer Shames GOP Tax Bill: Its A Stunning Deception
Source: Huffington Post
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) shamed Republicans on the Senate floor hours before lawmakers voted on their nearly 500-page tax bill, which included handwritten notes and crossed-out pages.
Schumer, who along with other Democratic senators received a draft of the bill late Friday, called the bill a monstrosity and criticized his Republican colleagues for rushing to pass a measure that he says only benefits the wealthy.
“Historians will mark this day as one of the darkest black-letter days in the long history of this Senate,” Schumer said during his request to delay voting on the bill until Monday.
“Once hailed as the world’s greatest deliberative body, as a beacon of American democracy and the envy of representative governments around the world, the Senate seems to have abandoned those qualities in a rush to pass a bill that no one is proud of.”
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This is the anti-thesis of an informed democracy passing bills without analysis.
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