Chuck Grassley: “So we are not quite there yet, but the way we are going, we might not get this year's AMT patch done until the next…”

“So we are not quite there yet, but the way we are going, we might not get this year's AMT patch done until the next Groundhog Day. Let me bring up another chart to expand on this point. I have next to me the portrait of Punxsutawney Phil, that famous groundhog. In thinking of Phil and the weather report he will provide in 45 days, I also thought about the popular film entitled ``Groundhog Day.'' That movie stars Bill Murray, in which a man relives the same day--Groundhog Day--over and over and over. This film has taken on greater significance for me as I seem to be in a very similar situation. More than just a sense of the deja vu, I feel I am reliving a past experience. We are going through the same debate we had a couple of weeks ago. We are on a different bill and the amendment has different offsets. Yet I seem to remember already having this debate. So, Mr. President, instead of taking the next steps and focusing on what we said we would do in the letter and finding a mutually agreeable--those are words from the letter--resolution to the AMT patch, the House Democratic leadership is insisting that the Senate repeat the same debate and vote of just last week.”