Doris Matsui: “Mr. Speaker, I am kind of surprised that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle keep talking about Democrats…”

“Mr. Speaker, I am kind of surprised that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle keep talking about Democrats bringing up the issue of greed and envy. I thought we were supposed to debate these things and state the facts. The fact of the matter is, if you took all of the bills that were passed over the last 3 months on the other side of the aisle there, you would find that the top 1 percent of the taxpayers in the America, that is, people that file tax returns on the average of $1.1 million a year, their earned income, they get 46 percent of this tax cut. Mr. Speaker, we cannot change that fact, and I think it is only right that the American public know this fact, the fact that those people that make over a million dollars a year get 46 percent of the benefit. It seems to me something that everybody should know before they vote on this particular bill. This is not talking about, making discussions about greed and envy; it is just stating a fact.”