mr. speaker , i got up this morning and here is the washington post 's eminent columnist , david broder .  he begins his story : `` if the house of representatives were a person , it would be blushing these days .  unfortunately , the house is beyond embarrassment. '' now , i used this before , but i wanted to bring it out here again because i think we need to demonstrate to people what is going on .  we have christmastime , and we have socks .  we have poor people 's socks and rich people 's socks .  and the rich people need $ 100 billion in tax cuts .  the republicans , for whatever reason , have decided that it is $ 100 billion yesterday and today , $ 100 billion .  now where do you get the money for that ?  well you have to cut somebody to get it .  you have got to cut something , or else you are going to drive up the deficit .  so the first thing you do is take child care away from 300 , 000 children .  and you put that in the sock , the stocking of the rich .  and then you have social security , ssi benefits for the disabled and the elderly .  and you take $ 700 million away from them and put it into the rich folks ' stocking .  and then you come to child support enforcement .  we do not want children who are in divorced families to get money from those deadbeat dads .  that is not what the republicans say .  they say , let us save $ 21 billion .  we will take it away from the children in divorces and put it in the rich people 's stocking .  and medicaid .  oh , well , they do not need health care .  why , there is $ 10 billion we can take away from poor people 's health care and put it in the rich people 's stocking .  and then there is student loans , $ 14 billion from college students .  we are going to load it on them .  that is the middle class .  that is the lower-class people who are trying to get through on loans .  we take their loans and we say , no , no , no , no , the rich people need it .  and then we have one of the best ones of all : food stamps .  let us take food stamps away from 300 , 000 people ; 300 , 000 people getting food stamps .  oh , these are the rich .  oh , but we have to cut them .  we have to take this away from them .  you can not have food stamps , poor people or ordinary people ; we got to give a tax break to the rich people .  and then finally we have foster children .  way down here in the bottom of the sock .  we have $ 600 million taken away from the program that we took those children out of another family and took responsibility for .  we have taken these children away from a family we have accepted responsibility for in this foster care payment , and we cut it and we give it to the rich folks .  now , you kind of wonder what might be left down here for the poor people .  well , look at that .  a lump of coal .  the poor people better save that lump of coal , because there is nothing in here for their heating bills , the liheap program has not been expanded , and all they are going to have to heat their house is the lump of coal that the republicans put in the poor people 's sock .  merry christmas .  i certainly hope you enjoy all the festivities .  this is a bad bill .  vote `` no . '' 