Political Quotes

“I thank my very good friend, the distinguished gentleman from New York. Mr. Speaker, with all due respect in the world, the Speaker of the House said, We shouldn't kick the can. What they are doing, Mr. Speaker, is they are kicking the middle class in the stomach. This is a partisan middle class mugging. The only part of the middle class tax cut that the Republicans don't like is the ``middle class'' part, which is why they are trying every obfuscation, every flip-flop, every flim-flam, every excuse they can come up with. The latest excuse is, We ought to go through regular order. I cannot imagine a single American opening up their paychecks in January, seeing that there's $100 or $200 less and saying, If only they had gone through regular order. If only they had gone to a House-Senate conference. A House-Senate conference? I'm sure that my Tea Party Republican colleagues campaigned on coming to Congress to support regular order and going to conference for the American people. No. They came here saying they wanted tax cuts. But when it comes time to give tax cuts, suddenly they're saying, No, we don't need tax cuts. We need a House-Senate conference to debate the tax cuts. Give me a break. The American people want two things from this Congress, Mr. Speaker: they want tax relief for the middle class. They want a Congress that can compromise. House Democrats gave both. House Republicans said ``no'' to both.…”