Political Quotes

“I am so proud of the accomplishments of this Congress. We balanced the budget, the first time in 28 years; we are now balancing it for the 4th year in a row. We stopped the raid on Social Security just this past week. Sometimes I think my friends on the other side of the aisle have amnesia, because we have already passed prescription drugs, provided prescription drugs for our seniors, we are paying off the national debt with a plan we have adopted by the year 2013, already paying down the debt by $350 billion; and we are also working to make our Tax Code more fair, particularly more fair for working and middle class families. We have often asked in this House, many of us, a pretty basic, fundamental question. That is, is it right, is it fair that under our Tax Code, married working couples pay higher taxes because they are married? Do we think it is right that 25 million married working couples, on average, pay $1,400 more in higher taxes just because they are married, compared to identical couples with identical incomes who live together outside of marriage. That is wrong.”