Bruce F. Vento: “our colleague just aptly mentioned, we had the circus on the grounds here, and I thought probably a lot of the…”

“our colleague just aptly mentioned, we had the circus on the grounds here, and I thought probably a lot of the Republicans are going to run away with the circus because of everything they want: Clowns, elephants, and they could play they could play their pea and shall game in which they are shifting taxes. Why are we talking about families? They are not receiving it, because they are not getting the family tax cut. It is not this bill. Forty-five percent of the benefits in the tax cuts in this bill go to corporations in 10 years. The fact is, the remaining part that goes to individuals, the lion's share of that, goes to the wealthy. You are not doing what you said you were going to do. It is the same story through and through in this bill. You deny you are proposing the policy, deny you are passing the policy, and deny the policy after it is enacted. Mr. Chairman, it does not take any courage to stand up here and vote for tax giveaways and then put the burden on someone else to do the cutting. Taking away kids lunches, doing things of this nature. That does not take courage. It took guts 2 years ago to stand here and say, we have to pay if we are going to deal with the deficit. It is tough work. But you are not willing to do that. You just want to go down the easy road in terms of this and pass this tax cut and leave the mess for the American people. I think this bill ought to be defeated, Mr. Chairman.”