Political Quotes

“What are the consequences of what we are talking about? I will give an example. When we were debating the tax bill a couple weeks ago, we found out after the fact because we only had an hour to debate this major tax bill that 12 million children of working parents, 6 million families, were left on the editing room floor not getting a tax cut that they were promised, a $1,000 tax cut. It costs us $3.5 billion to make those children whole while millionaires were getting their tax cut. General Musharraf of Pakistan came to the White House the other day, walked out in 24 hours with a $3.5 billion check, equal to the amount it would be to keep the children, 12 million children, 6 million families, the same amount of money to give them a full $1,000 child tax credit. They do not have time to debate these things. They learn the consequences later that 12 million children, American children, have been left on the editing room floor because they did not have a lobbyist in the conference room.”