Political Quotes

“now you hear the other side of the story. It is a privilege for me to come to the floor of the Senate to speak on the issue of the bill before us, which is a sense-of-the- Senate bill, which means basically the Senate is debating something that is not shooting with real bullets. In other words, it just expresses the sense of the Senate, it does not change any law, so it doesn't amount to much. As the President and congressional leaders continue to debate how best to reduce the deficit, it seems my friends on the other side of the aisle and my President continue to demand a tax increase as part of any deal. For sure, any discussion of reducing the deficit should include a discussion of tax reform, but tax reform is different from tax increases. You heard the previous speaker speak about Republican plans that deal with reducing expenditures, and that is right, because we believe the deficit problem in this country is not because the American people are undertaxed, it is because Congress and Washington overspend. However, what is being discussed with this bill currently is tax increases on targeted groups, supposedly because they can afford it. This is not tax reform. Professor Vedder of Ohio University has studied tax increases and spending for more than two decades. In the late 1980s he coauthored with Lowell Galloway, also of Ohio University, a research paper for the Congressional Joint Economic Committee.…”