Patricia Schroeder: “I must say I rise tonight, and I am very saddened by what we now know happened last week. We know that we are going to…”

“I must say I rise tonight, and I am very saddened by what we now know happened last week. We know that we are going to be taking up the tax bill this week, but last week we took up a bill that we thought we knew what was in. We thought it was closing loopholes. We thought that it was going to shut off tax breaks to owners who were selling their broadcast stations or whatever to minorities, the infamous Viacom issue. And today we now learn that tucked away in there was a nice $63 million jewel for none other than Rupert Murdoch and, of course, Mr. Murdoch also happens to be the publisher of the Speaker's infamous book. Could there be a connect-the-dots here? I do not know. Everybody is saying 'Couldn't possibly be.' But I must say, as a Member of the House, I really feel we were all hoodwinked, because this did not come up in the House at all. It came up in the Senate, and apparently the Senate yielded, or the House yielded to the Senate in conference on this. None of us were told about this, and this was slipped in.”