Political Quotes

“It is tough to come down here in the caldron of the Ways and Means. I have good friends on both sides and I appreciate their diligence, but we have been lobbied on this legislation, and we have been lobbied by married families that have been asking for a simple solution, some legal certainty. One of the things that frustrates me the most about this place as an institution is we do things sporadically every year, and we do not provide any certainty or we do not finish the job on legislation. The perfect example is the tax cut bill, because of the rules of the other body, having to sunset key components of the Tax Code. The death tax is one of them. I do not personally believe that government ought to redistribute wealth, and I think that is supported by the folks in my district. I think other people disagree, but that is what that does, is a redistribution of wealth; and it hurts people who want to get ahead. It destroys family farms and small businesses. This penalizes people for being married, and there is no certainty that this bill will maintain after 10 years. I just want to boil it down to the simple aspects, and I know there are other issues that we are all involved in, and I appreciate those, but I want to be able to go home and tell married couples that Uncle Sam does not take more money out of their check just because they are married.”