Jack Kingston: “I want to say to the gentlewoman, and learned, and one of the more intelligent Members on the Democrat side, surely you…”

“I want to say to the gentlewoman, and learned, and one of the more intelligent Members on the Democrat side, surely you know the wisdom of the chart shown here earlier, saying the bulk of the tax returns go to people who make under $75,000 a year. What could be better for the middle class? It was your President who promised the middle-class tax cut. We are just the party who happens to be keeping its feet to the fire on it. Welfare reform, let's end welfare reform as we know it. The President forgot about that, but we are going to help him out with it. The balanced budget amendment, we are going to help him out. The line-item veto, no mention of it for 2 years, but we are going to help him out.”