Schumer To GOP On Financial Reform: You Lie!
Brian Beutler | April 22, 2010, 12:44PM
Republican rhetoric has softened, but the Democrats aren't laying off at all. At a press event this afternoon, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), the third ranking Democrat took the gloves off, and called the earlier Republican line on financial reform a lie.
"On the health care bill we allowed too many lies to get out there without rebuttal, because we thought they were so obviously untrue," Schumer said. "But we've learned our lesson. And the minute these things come out of the mouths of some of our Republican colleagues, we rebut them. And we rebut them again and again. And fortunately these lies are not taking hold."
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