"They are very good. They work extremely well. And I think they are worth their weight in gold."
"That is wonderful."
"After-tax income for the middle segment of the population has been roughly stagnant for too long now."
"The effect of the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts, in my district, something like 95 percent of the people living in my district get an average tax cut from the 2001 and 2003 cycle of somewhere between $4..."
"the one thing that I would make a comment, I think some of those tax professionals have never actually run a factory"
"I am very pleased that the President's budget invests in higher education, with increases in the Pell grant and making the American Opportunity Tax Credit permanent."
"We are searching for--the phrase 'middle ground' is tried, it is over used."
"If coal based sources of energy were to deteriorate in major portions of this country, you would lose whole mining communities."