Jon Kyl: “I have one last comment regarding the ``whopper,'' as the Senator put it. It is absolutely true that Republicans were in…”

“I have one last comment regarding the ``whopper,'' as the Senator put it. It is absolutely true that Republicans were in charge when we passed the lower tax rates for Americans to help Americans out. We had 55 votes at the top amount; to make tax policy permanent, we needed 60. We could not get enough of our Democratic friends--not even six or seven of them--to join us to make the tax policy permanent; we could not get 60 votes so we could eliminate that irrational system. So it wasn't a ``whopper'' that I told; it was the truth. Republicans were in charge. If we had about seven more votes, we could have had a rational tax system rather than the one we have today.”