Anna Eshoo: “we all got here the same way, we campaigned. During the campaigns we waged there were all kinds of political buttons…”

“we all got here the same way, we campaigned. During the campaigns we waged there were all kinds of political buttons, there were yard signs, there were balloons. Some people had hair combs with their names on, nail files. Of course, there is the traditional bumper sticker. Today what is being brought to the floor of the House in my view is a political bumper sticker. Why do I say that? Because the American people really want us, once that campaign is over, to come here, to be thoughtful, to work with the kind of earnestness that is going to produce sound public policy for our country. So what is on the floor? What are we debating for the American people that are tuned in today? Rather than a thoughtful, comprehensive alternative to our Nation's Tax Code, which is complex, which is confusing, and no one likes, we get a bumper sticker. It is flimsy because it is trying to sell a tax plan that taxes the Internet and derails our Nation's new economy.”