Jerry Moran: “the most egregious, unfair aspect of the tax bill that will come before us deals with the people who process our Social…”

“the most egregious, unfair aspect of the tax bill that will come before us deals with the people who process our Social Security tax, who patrol our borders, who operate the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and who in fact do so many services that we take for granted--the Federal employees, a quarter of a million of whom have been cut, requiring those left to perform much more difficult work. But the most egregious aspect of this is that we are going to take $12 billion from their retirement plan, which means that the average Federal employee will pay $760 more per year in taxes in order to provide a tax cut for the average American of $124. I want to repeat this. The average Federal employee will pay $760 more in taxes to provide a tax cut of $124 for the average American. And these are employees who were guaranteed 8 years ago that their retirement system would never be changed. Mr. Speaker, this is an egregious assault not only on the integrity of the Congress but on the security of our Federal employees.”