Political Quotes

“The gentleman has a perfectly appropriate question. Let me say, I do want to say to my friend from Colorado, it just struck me, when he mentioned we are from Virginia and Massachusetts, we represented the people who voted on the original Constitution. Colorado was not around to get involved in the original one, so the Republicans are being very generous by letting you in. But I think the Philadelphia convention had a little better set of procedures than the current group. Any effort to close loopholes, any effort to diminish tax preferences that wealthy people now have, any effort to say, for instance, that the tax code encourages people to go overseas more than they should, the effort we had earlier to close the tax loophole on people who want to renounce their citizenship but retain their money, all of those would require two-thirds. As hard as it has been to deal with any of that loophole closing or excessive corporate luxury that we have done so far, going from a majority to two-thirds would make it infinitely harder.”