Bob Schaffer: “that really is the whole point and why it is so important here because the Treasury Department people, their focus is…”

“that really is the whole point and why it is so important here because the Treasury Department people, their focus is the Tax Code. That is their job. That is their mission in life. That is what they do for a living, and when we go meet with them to talk about tax credits, that is the level of discussion we have to raise is how do we utilize the Tax Code to accomplish what we think, as representatives of our constituents, is in the best interest of the people. So we have to talk in Treasury language when we go to the Treasury Department. And they were genuinely helpful. I appreciated that meeting, and I think things are going great over there, but the child down here at the bottom was not the focus of that discussion is the point. The legislators, and the politicians here in the Congress, of course, we respond to a great variety of priorities throughout the country. There are 435 of us just in the House. Across the Capitol here, there are another 100 of us. So we have got all kinds of priorities we are trying to balance. So politics becomes the important element in how we establish priorities here in the House and in the other body.”