Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from Texas, Chairman Smith. I appreciate that very much. I wanted to suggest that the gentleman from Texas, Judge Poe, a distinguished member of the Judiciary Committee, raised the criticism about the new 1099 rule being a job-killer. And apparently, he and the President are in agreement on the rule expanding reporting requirements to include transactions of $600 or more. President Obama has stated that he is open to reconsidering these rules in light of the burden that it brings on small business. So I would like to suggest that there is at least one point of accord. There may be others between the members of the Judiciary Committee in the consideration of the matter before us. Now I return to the assertion that the health care bill, proudly referred to by some on this side of the aisle as ObamaCare, that this bill will cost 800,000 jobs. And I would like to suggest that this misleading figure has been floating around since last summer. This is why The Hill article on the CBO today said, ``GOP jumps on old job numbers.'' What CBO said last summer was that if health insurance is affordable, a person who is working a bad job just to keep health care might be able to leave the job.…”