Frank Riggs: “good morning. As my colleagues know, I guess this partisan debate really boils down to whether we want to see the glass…”

“good morning. As my colleagues know, I guess this partisan debate really boils down to whether we want to see the glass as half empty or half full, and it is too reminiscent of I think the all too common American mindset of what have you done for me lately. The do-nothing charge though does not stand up to scrutiny because this is the Congress that balanced the budget and passed major tax relief for working Americans for the first time in a generation. We have fundamentally, as earlier speakers have pointed out changed, the debate in Washington, and we can take pride not in being the do-nothing Congress, but in being the surplus Congress. We have also reigned in the IRS through real reform of the IRS, shifting the burden of proof from taxpayers to the IRS in legal proceedings, and we put Medicare, the health insurance program for older Americans, on solvent solid footing. Do-nothing Congress? I do not think so. The glass is half full and only getting better as the Republican majority grows in Congress and in the country.”