Political Quotes

“I come to the floor very pleased that our Speaker of the House, Mr. Boehner, has brought the discussion of our fiscal challenges to this floor. Indeed, it is long overdue. We have been calling upon the Speaker to bring forth a middle-income tax cut now for a very long time--in fact, since last summer when it passed the United States Senate. The President stands ready and poised with his pen to sign it. Democrats in the House have a discharge petition to bring that bill to the floor. What stands in the way is an act on the part of the Republican majority to bring a middle-income tax cut to the floor of the House, which across the country has almost universal support and which I think in this body, given the right to vote for it, would have overwhelming support. Up until now, everybody in the country--in fact, in the world--has been talking about what's going to happen--those who pay attention to such matters--what's going to happen in the budget debate in the Congress and with the President. At last, that subject comes to the floor. {time} 1210 What I would do to respond to what the Speaker has said, though, is to set the record straight. The fact is that the President has, and Democrats agree with him, agreed to around $1.6 trillion in cuts in the Budget Control Act and other acts of Congress in this particular Congress, $1.6 trillion in cuts. Where are the cuts? They're in bills that you, Mr. Speaker, have voted for.…”