Dan Kildee: “We're all concerned with fiscal responsibility, but I can recall a tough political vote I took the first year of…”

“We're all concerned with fiscal responsibility, but I can recall a tough political vote I took the first year of President George W. Bush. That was on about a $2 trillion tax cut, $2 trillion. That's $2,000 billion. This bill will cost $6.5 billion a year. That tax cut was $2 trillion. There's various ways we have to be fiscally responsible, and I submit that tax cut, in my humble opinion--and I voted ``no'' on it and went back home and faced some wrath, not that much, though--I voted ``no'' on that because I also have a sense of fiscal responsibility. Now you talk about IDEA. I think you will concede that no one's been a stronger advocate of full funding for IDEA than myself.”