John Shaw: “I would have to remind the gentleman that his party was running the Congress for decades before that. There is not one…”

“I would have to remind the gentleman that his party was running the Congress for decades before that. There is not one dollar that this government spends that is not directly appropriated or approved by this House, right here, where revenue and spending bills must start and end. So I would suggest that he take a lesson in constitutional law and check his history when he starts doing this. Then he says how they claim to have dug us out, with the largest tax increase in history. That is the way we balanced the budget. That is a fact of history. I think we should certainly take notice of that. As the gentleman from Wisconsin correctly pointed out, these tax decreases that we have on the books right now, one of which we are talking about sunsetting now, that we want to erase the sunset on, has been the economic stimulus that has been the engine that has led to this great recovery. We were headed towards perhaps what would have been a very deep recession and if it were not for the Bush tax cuts, we would have bottomed out and still be struggling at the bottom of the hole that he is referring to. What have the tax decreases done? These tax cuts have given economic stimulus that has increased employment in this country.”