JOHN LINDER: “The average income earner pays a 28 percent withholding tax and 7.65 percent, their share of the payroll tax. Their…”

I oppose this legislation. Since the Democrats' 2009 stimulus law, 3.3 million jobs have been eliminated, not the 3.7 million jobs they forecast it would create. Unemployment has risen to 10 percent, not the 8 percent peak Democrats…

we precisely made the decision in the drafting of this bill not to fight the battle over increasing or decreasing revenues; we would lose votes on that issue alone, not to eliminate all the excise taxes, we would lose 150 votes in this…

Some Democrats have said the welfare expansion in this bill is about jobs. It's not. It's about more welfare. This bill would expand the welfare emergency fund Democrats created in last year's failed stimulus bill. That fund made available…

This resolution is one that, in a perfect world, would not be necessary. In that perfect world, every child would live with two married parents, and every parent would be unfailingly caring and loving for that child. But even as we promote…