Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. This is the most irresponsible bill that I will have been confronted with in the 37 years that I have been in the Congress of the United States. This bill, Mr. Speaker, is both reckless and feckless. It is reckless because it would add more than $1.7 trillion--the chairman says over $2 trillion--to the debt over a decade in a shameful act of hypocrisy for its supporters who, for years, have called for fiscal responsibility. It is feckless because its authors write it with an eye toward politics, not policy. There is no courage in voting for this bill. It is easy to vote for a tax cut. What is hard to do is paying for what we buy. Neither side does that particularly well. There is no courage in voting for this bill, only a suspension of common sense and their now abandoned commitment to fiscal sustainability. Furthermore, my Republican friends call this bill a tax cut. The gentleman who just spoke, the whip, said it is a reduction in rates, but 36 million working Americans will receive a tax increase under this bill. It was a very careful articulation of reduction of rates, but taxes for 36 million Americans, working Americans, will go up. Furthermore, they call this bill a tax cut.…”