George P. Radanovich: “It is equal in its percentage of return. Only a bumblehead would buy the argument that that is tax breaks for the rich.”

Let us make PILT mandatory. The $320 million obligation, why do not my colleagues join me in this amendment and make it fully mandatory like they have made seven other new programs that are created by this bill mandatory spending? This is…

Mr. Speaker, that is why I think the President's plan is wise, because it relies on diversifying our energy sources. We in California are far too reliant on natural gas, as the gentleman mentioned, and one can never put all our eggs in one…

I ask the gentleman, why does he not join me in adding PILT to the other seven mandatory programs?

I cannot help but think what either Meriwether Lewis or Thomas Jefferson would have thought had they realized that this country had come to the point where the U.S. Government is taking away wealth from not even the rich, I mean this is…