Jerry Moran: “there is a lot that could and should be said about MSA's. I am going to save that for another time. Right now I would…”

“there is a lot that could and should be said about MSA's. I am going to save that for another time. Right now I would like to spend maybe a minute and a half and talk about the subject of hypocrisy. Tomorrow the Committee on Rules is going to bring up a rule for a constitutional amendment that would require a two-thirds vote to raise income taxes, and then, the very next legislative day, April 15, when we get back from vacation, we are going to bring that bill up on the floor to require a two-thirds vote. Now on the first day of this legislative term back in January 1995, we passed a law that was supposed to govern all of our actions that said we require a three-fifths vote to raise taxes, and do you know, every single time it has applied, it has been waived, and here is the third time that the Committee on Rules again waives the three-fifths requirement. We had to waive it, with that Contract With America, Tax Relief Act that was a big issue. Remember I raised a point of order. It turns out that, sure enough, it did include a tax increase. So the Parliamentarian recognized we had to waive it. The second time we had the budget resolution, we had the Committee on Rules had to waive it, and now the third time we have got tax increases here.…”