Political Quotes

“let me first begin my brief comments just saluting the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Archer), chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, for his leadership and his tenaciousness in bringing this issue to a head and succeeding. And also I wish to thank the gentleman from New York (Mr. Rangel), the ranking member, for his bipartisan cooperation. This legislation is a big victory for the taxpayer. Clearly, reforming the IRS, holding the IRS accountable to those who work hard, live by the rules and pay the bills, is a big victory. One other big victory that is a key part of this bill was one of those issues that was a quiet issue and became more and more important. I found over the last 3 rac{1}{2} years that I have represented the South Side of Chicago and the South Suburbs that I have had a half a dozen constituents contact me every year, usually divorced single moms struggling to raise the kids, and there were cases where a deadbeat dad was a deadbeat taxpayer and the IRS could not find him. Mr. Speaker, whose door did the IRS show up at to collect the taxes? That of the poor, struggling working, single, divorced mom with the kids whose husband was not paying the child support. This is a big victory for taxpayers.”