Robert Ehrlich: “I hope that does not get the gentleman a negative ad in his next campaign, by the way. As the gentleman knows, his wife…”

“I hope that does not get the gentleman a negative ad in his next campaign, by the way. As the gentleman knows, his wife is a special person to us. I congratulate him prematurely. She is a wonderful lady. I know that there is so much in this agreement we would like to talk about, and time is short. We have reform of the earned income tax credit, very important. We have the alternative minimum tax relief, very important for capital-intensive small businesses. I work with the printers a lot in my district and they need to invest so much in capital, in new machines, in a very competitive industry. We have exempted small corporations from the alternative minimum tax, a very important provision. Welfare privatization, an experiment in Texas, very important. But there is one thing I think we really need to talk about before we leave today, and I know my friend from Indiana has something else he wants to say, but I just cannot resist talking about entitlement reform.”