09/21/2011
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"We should come together around a really difficult issue and find a bipartisan solution."
"I don't think anybody can defend that when those organizations and high wealth individuals pay less in Federal income taxes than a teacher in my communities of Bay City or a nurse in Saginaw or a fact..."
"It doesn't substantially cut taxes for working families. It certainly doesn't deal with some of the needs of the most at-risk people."
"I do think it would make sense for us as a body... to try to focus on tax policy that is a bipartisan approach."