Wendy Sherman: “Mr. Speaker, 2 months ago the President of the United States stood where you sit now and asked us to pass his tax…”

“Mr. Speaker, 2 months ago the President of the United States stood where you sit now and asked us to pass his tax program for a particular waitress. He described this waitress as having an income of $25,000, two kids, no spouse, and said that is the reason that we need his program. And he was compassionate in that description; unfortunately, not compassionate to that waitress or the other waitresses that work with her. You see, under the President's tax program, that waitress with two kids does get a little bit of tax relief, perhaps 2 percent of her income, perhaps a cheap 25-cent tip left under the table or under the plate. But he carefully selected the one waitress in the entire restaurant that gets anything at all. You see, under the President's plan as passed by this House, if that waitress had had an income of $23,000, she gets not 1 penny, not even a 1-cent insult tip.”