Political Quotes

“Mr. Chair, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Chair, just as some of my Democratic colleagues have done, I was just thumbing through the actual document. I know this is crazy, and literacy being sort of a lost art, but I am trying to find where this heresy, these cuts are. There is a discussion here that basically says we need not to just purely stick this on the debt and deficit. Okay. In the Energy and Commerce instruction, I think it is 4 percent of the area of authorization, you are telling me after the hundreds of hours idiots like me have come behind this microphone and done presentations showing the distortions, the waste and fraud, the misallocations, the lack of use of technology, the duplications, you can't produce 4 percent? Why is the left so terrified of the moment where maybe a document that forces us in some ways to listen to each other, to maybe say: How do we do this better, faster, cheaper? I am going to say this three or four more times. Does the left really want to raise taxes on the average American family by $2,853? Is that the plan here? This says that 63 percent of those who are tax filers will see their taxes go up. Is that the plan here? Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.”