Harold Volkmer: “I was anxious, and I wish that the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Weldon] who started this discourse, would have…”

“I was anxious, and I wish that the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Weldon] who started this discourse, would have stayed here because I wanted to commend the gentleman because he is accurate, and we are not without sin on this side. He is true; what he has said is true. In the past there have been examples in those tax bills where there have been special benefits for, like the gentleman from Pennsylvania said, the wealthy or special corporations, for special individuals, et cetera. That has been there. Many of us on this side of the aisle did not like that either. We think it is wrong. And this is not the first time though that we, as Democrats, have attempted to do something about it. The gentleman from Pennsylvania is wrong. We have. We passed the bill, the line item veto, with just a majority provision last year with a large amount of both Democrat and Republican support. It did no go anywhere in the Senate; like a lot of other things, got stopped by a little filibuster over there, or whatever.”