JOHN LINDER: “well, there was an example of the misleading hyperbole that we have heard for the last several weeks on Republican…”

“well, there was an example of the misleading hyperbole that we have heard for the last several weeks on Republican programs. My friend from Hawaii talks about a bill that passed last week that protected billionaires and, in fact, the bill never addressed the issue. It never addressed the issue. The Senate put some language in a bill that would have dealt with punishing people who leave the United States because of confiscatory taxation. The Senate then receded from their position, because the language was too loose, and the House Committee on Ways and Means could not draft language. Indeed, in the Committee on Rules in discussion of this bill, the issue was raised, and the Democrats dropped the issue and apologized for the misleading information they brought us, because it was not in the bill. It was not in the House-passed bill. It was not in the conference committee report. And, indeed, not a single Democrat on the Committee on Rules voted against the rule that brought the bill to the floor, and now overnight, overnight, they discovered another class- warfare angle and started misleading America about what was in the bill. The bill was to return the exemption for health care premiums for single farmers, for private property owners that had nothing to do with what the gentleman from Hawaii spoke about.”