Kenny Hulshof: “I think a point that needs to be made regarding the numbers on the chart that the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. Blunt]…”

“I think a point that needs to be made regarding the numbers on the chart that the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. Blunt] has before him is that these numbers, this is not sham accounting. This is not cooking the books, as the gentleman from Colorado, Mr. Bob Schaffer, talked about the Treasury likes to do with this nebulous concept called family economic income. These numbers have come from the Joint Committee on Taxation, which is a bipartisan group that takes the effects, the true effects of any tax law and determines what is going to be the effect. These numbers are what will happen over the next 5 years if the President will sign into law the measure, the tax relief measure that we have passed here in the House by an overwhelming majority. These numbers are good numbers. They are solid numbers of the Joint Tax Committee. It might even be that those who come after us this evening, after our time is up, as it draws to a close, will talk about, well, 10 years from now these Republican tax cuts are going to explode the deficit, are suddenly going to balloon the deficit, and use these terms. I would challenge anybody that makes these spurious arguments.”