On the recordOctober 8, 2013
I thank the gentleman. So after all this refusal to negotiate, you now want to set up a fake committee on deficit reduction where you refuse to even include the idea of reducing the deficit in part by shutting down tax breaks for big oil companies because you don't want to use one penny of revenue, even from closing tax loopholes, to reduce the debt and deficit. I hear from my colleagues how important it is to reduce the debt--and it absolutely is--but apparently it's not important enough to shut down one tax loophole for special interests. End this sham. Vote on the Senate bill. Open the government.
