We think we have some options to offset it.

One was to minimize the burden on middle class taxpayers.

This plan increases that earned-income tax credit so that we can finally tell every working parent in America: If you work full time and you have children at home, we will lift you out of poverty.

We shouldn't make it harder to work and support a family.

All of them, if the program passes, will have the expensing provisions of the Code, that is, they'll be able to just immediately write off $20,000 rather than $10,000 of expensing.

That's right. We'll be able to say for the first time if you work full time and you have children in your home, you won't be poor any more.

This bill does not nearly provide what I believe is necessary to help our economy.

I think small businesses should really be limited in what they're required to pay by the Government.

Unless we are firmly and unequivocally committed to private sector job growth, and especially to small business growth, we cannot succeed as a country.

I want to empower low income people by making work pay.

For 5 months I've been fighting hard for a national economic strategy to build prosperity for all our people.

Now, our opponents chant like a mantra; they say, 'Less tax, more cuts; less tax, more cuts.'

I disagree with Mr. Perot that the answer is to put a 50-cent gas tax on the middle class and raise more taxes on the middle class and the working poor than on the wealthy.

S. 1985 would encourage private creditors to make their lending conditions more stringent.

I have determined, based on that advice and on the considerations described in sections 501 and 502(c) of the 1974 Act, that such waivers are in the national economic interest of the United States.

S. 1722 would effectively destroy the integrity of the bipartisan budget agreement and put into place a poorly designed, unnecessarily expensive program that would significantly increase the Federal deficit.

It improperly involves the Government in deciding whether or not a specific ATP project is a 'commercial success.'

This Act creates the conditions that should allow future interest rates to be lower than they would be otherwise.