Political Quotes

“To the Senator from Oregon, I will close and say thank you very much. It is kind of like the Senator said, a fork in the road. It is a moment. We can continue to do business as usual, tinker with it a little bit here, a little bit there, have special interests kind of run the show or we can turn it back to the American people by helping them keep more money in their pockets, helping small business keep more money in their pockets. Let them invest in the economy, as the data that I have seen around this can show, that over a 10-year spread, you will add over $2 trillion to the GDP, based on small business reinvesting those dollars instead of the IRS grabbing them from them. This is a positive step. I do think, I hope as our colleagues--a couple of them are on the floor and we will stop in a second so they can get their time to do their presentations. But I know and I hope other colleagues are watching and listening because this is a moment maybe in this body that we can actually do some significant reform in a bipartisan way. I do not sit on Banking. I do not sit on Finance. Some people have asked me: Well, if you are not on those committees, why are you interested in this? Well, simply because it has a simplification of the tax return system. It lowers middle-class taxes and those on small business. That is what drives this economy. That is what we should be focused on. So I credit these Senators for stepping up, kind of plowing the field in a way. I am a latecomer to this.…”