Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding and adopt all the remarks he made in his opening statement. This debate about IRS lends itself to being the most dishonest and demagogic rhetoric that I have seen in the Congress at any point in time. I rise as the former chairman of the Treasury-Postal Committee, now the Financial Services and General Government Committee to which I will return having left the majority leader's spot. This bill is a bad bill. Every small American taxpayer ought to be for this bill because this bill will make sure that others pay their fair share as they do. That is the issue. They are paying their fair share, as the chairman noted, because we take it out of their salary. But the people who get it through dividends and capital gains, et cetera, et cetera, aha, they have got the lawyers, the accountants, and the people who can tell them how not to pay their fair share. This is a bill against small business. This is a bill against the small taxpayer. This is against paying your fair share.”