Mike Thompson: “I thank the chairman for yielding me time. You know, here we go again. We started this session with a terrible tax bill…”

“I thank the chairman for yielding me time. You know, here we go again. We started this session with a terrible tax bill that was written in the dark of night, not one single hearing, not one single expert witness, an unpaid-for $2.3 trillion tax cut. We find out after it is passed that it is fraught with problems. Now we are going to end the session with another tax bill, not quite as fiscally irresponsible as the first, but $100 billion unpaid for-- again, no hearings, no expert witnesses. Why in the world do you think this one is not going to be fraught with problems? This is the height of irresponsibility and just one more example of the Republicans' borrow-and-spend philosophy and practice. Once again, I am sure we are going to hear from our friends on the other side that now that we have done this, now that we have charged all this money to future generations, we are going to have to come back and put on our fiscally responsible hat and cut Medicare and cut Social Security. This is shameful, and it is irresponsible. If that is not bad enough, now, in this bill, you are going to try to provide false hope to people who were victimized from natural disasters all across the country, from hurricanes, tornados, fires. You know this bill is not going anyplace. The Senate is not going to take up this bill. So you are providing false hope to folks who really need our help right now. Mr.…”