Political Quotes

“Reclaiming my time, again, in the absence of an actual House Resolution 783, I thought perhaps it was an erroneous reference to H.R. 783. Again, it is unclear what we are debating, but I know that we have somebody here who wants to debate an important topic that is critical to the country. I am happy to yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro). Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, instead of debating whether we are going to have a resolution to fix a resolution or a resolution to fix a bill, what I want to urge is that what we do, that this House take up the middle class tax relief package that the Senate passed yesterday. So I rise to urge the House majority to bring to the floor the middle class tax cut that was passed in the Senate yesterday. Let me just take a quote from The Washington Post yesterday, the headline: ``Republicans want to raise taxes on the poor. Why?'' The tax cut plan passed yesterday by the Democrats in the Senate and supported by the President would provide tax cuts to 98 percent of Americans and 97 percent of small businesses in this country. Failure to pass this bill would mean 114 million middle class families would see their taxes increase, including 1.4 million in my State of Connecticut. Yet, the House majority appears intent on holding these middle class tax cuts hostage to further tax cuts for the wealthiest people in this Nation.…”