Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from Michigan for yielding time. This argument seems a little bit confusing, I'm sure, to most people in America today. Several months ago House Republicans were accused of disagreeing with the President because, oh, gee, the idea was the President's, so we wanted to disagree with him. Well, here we are today agreeing with the President on a 1-year extension of the payroll tax holiday. Let me read a quote from what the President said: This Congress cannot and should not leave for vacation until they have made sure that the tax increase doesn't happen. Let me repeat that: Congress should not and cannot go on vacation before they have made sure that working families aren't seeing their taxes go up by $1,000 and those who are out there looking for work don't see their unemployment insurance expire. We passed a bill. The House bill that we passed with bipartisan support would provide $1,000 a year. I've heard it many times on the House floor as people come and say this is a $1,000 tax relief to the middle class. Not under your plan. The plan that the Democrats have put forward in the Senate, the plan put forward in the House by our Democratic colleagues would provide $160 worth of tax relief--$160 worth of tax relief is what they are fighting about today. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.”