Political Quotes

“I don't think we're talking about a law or a new regulation here, but we're talking about something that we ought to do for our communities, and that is recognize that we're all part of a community. You said something a few moments ago that caused me to come back to this issue. You talked about the trade deficit. And the way in which we are literally exporting our money, we're also exporting our jobs. Last December--just a year ago--on this floor, we took up a piece of legislation that dealt with this issue. In the previous Tax Code, there were tax breaks given to American corporations for shipping jobs offshore. For offshoring American jobs, they got a tax reduction. And some of us said, Well, what in the world is that all about? So we scrambled and tried to find out where the codes were. And a bill came forth on the floor that eliminated about two-thirds of those tax breaks given to American corporations when they offshore jobs. A very interesting division occurred here on the floor of this House. It was a straight-up bill. It wasn't complex. It was on that issue: Should American corporations continue to receive tax breaks for offshoring jobs? That was the bill. No riders. No hidden agendas. No extraneous sentences put in. This House divided right down the middle. The Democrats voted to end the tax cuts. The Republicans, not one Republican voted to end those tax breaks given to American corporations for offshoring jobs. And I'm going, I don't get it, guys.…”