Political Quotes

“From their own mouth comes from the truth of what Mr. Raskin said. They have said it very clearly, they need to do this for their contributors. Who are their contributors? Well, the wealthy, the superwealthy, and the rest. Mr. Speaker, I think we are going to wrap it up here. I want to thank Mr. Raskin for his participation. I want to thank my colleagues who came to the floor tonight to express their dismay at what has happened. Now, because the bill was rushed through without any public hearings, there were errors in the bill that require that the Senate take the approved conference committee report and modify it, which I suppose means there has to be yet another conference committee, modify it, remove the errors that are in conflict with the Senate rules, and send it back here. Presumably, that will be done tomorrow. Maybe now, as we bring to the attention of the American public the way in which this tax bill is harmful to the economy, harmful to the American middle class, and will result in 83 million Americans immediately paying higher taxes, and over the period of time, everybody that is less than $100,000, maybe $150,000, will be paying higher taxes, but the wealthy and the corporations will go on and have their lower taxes for many, many years to come, all of that hopefully will begin to sink in on the American public, and they will rise up in indignation and call a halt to what is a major rip-off of the American Treasury and America's future.…”