Political Quotes

“You know, when there is an issue as serious as this, you would think that the majority would let us introduce a substitute. Instead, the answer is a stone wall. So I am going to explain what is in my substitute. I want the American public to know what would be in it. A 1-year extension and expansion of the employee payroll tax cut to 3.1 percent, as the President proposed; a 1-year extension on the bonus depreciation; and a 1-year extension on unemployment insurance is in the bill that Mr. Doggett and a lot of us introduced, H.R. 3346--and a 10-year SGR fix. I want the American public to understand what's at stake here and how we pay for it. This chart shows very vividly what the Republicans essentially are doing. I want everybody to look at it. Under their proposal, seniors sacrifice $31 billion. Under their proposal, Federal employees sacrifice $40 billion. Under their proposal, unemployed Americans--unemployed, looking for work--sacrifice $11 billion. And under their proposal, essentially people earning over $1 million sacrifice nothing, nothing. They don't pay for this bill, while seniors and everybody else indicated here, Federal workers and the unemployed, do. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. LaTourette). The time of the gentleman has expired. Mr. McGOVERN. I yield the gentleman an additional 30 seconds.”