Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I want to point out a couple of things to my colleague from Massachusetts. What is sending jobs overseas are things like the government takeover of health care in this country, which is creating such uncertainty and which is driving up the cost of health care for everyone, as well as the rules and regulations established by the EPA and the programs that many of our colleagues across the aisle love so much. They constantly talk about tax cuts for the rich. Well, every American got a tax cut when the tax cuts went into effect. The tax rate for the lowest-income Americans went down from 15 percent to 10 percent. Now they are proposing to allow that to go back up on January 1 and to create the largest tax increase in the history of this country. It sounds to me like my colleague across the aisle is defending Federal employees from not paying their taxes. I find that really difficult to understand. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to my colleague, the gentleman from Utah (Mr. Chaffetz).”