Political Quotes

“If I might again say to the Senator from North Dakota, I thank him on behalf of Michigan family farmers and small family-owned businesses, as well as large family-owned businesses, for putting forward what I believe is, in fact, just the right balance. We say to our family-owned enterprises, we want you, if you have worked hard all your life, to be able to pass on that business, that farm to your family. We want to make sure you are not paying the inheritance tax. But at the same time we say to middle-class families and seniors and everybody else in the country that we are going to make sure your priorities, those that affect the majority of Americans, will be funded before we, in fact, give a tax cut again to the top half a percent of the public, the top billionaires of the country. It is the right balance. It is the right set of priorities. I thank my friend. I appreciate the opportunity to join with him in his amendment.”