Political Quotes

“I thank my friend for yielding. I want to thank the chairman of the Rules Committee for his efforts as well. Ladies and gentlemen of this House, we talked a lot about, correctly, creating certainty, alleviating uncertainty, alleviating angst among our people and among our economy. We have an opportunity to bring certainty to a large segment of the America that they will not receive a tax increase on January 1. We have that ability because the United States Senate has acted on a bill which will allow us to do that. Even if we don't take their bill up, we could take a bill that Tim Walz has introduced. Congressman Walz has introduced a bill which will say to the 98 percent that we've talked about, You won't get a tax increase. I think that we have agreement on that. As the gentleman from Texas indicated, we have agreement on that. I think there's not anybody here--or very, very few at least, on either side of the aisle--who doesn't say that those who are making $250,000 or less as families or $200,000 as individuals, or less, shouldn't get a tax increase. Now, there are some who say that those above should not get a tax increase either. I understand that. But we have disagreement on that. The American people are frustrated by the fact that even that on which we have agreement we can't move. That's their frustration. They understand that we have policy differences, but they are hopeful that when, at least, we have agreement on an issue that we can move it.…”