Jon L. Christensen: “this bill is perhaps the best piece of small business legislation to come down the pike in over 40 years. Think about…”

“this bill is perhaps the best piece of small business legislation to come down the pike in over 40 years. Think about it: Capital gains reductions, death tax reforms, helping the independent contractor, the small business owner. The No. 1 piece of legislation, according to small business. Last year the White House Conference on Small Business said it was their No. 1 issue. Sixteen hundred delegates from all across the country, they came and thought about it and talked about it, and then took a number of sampling policies, talked with their members and said the No. 1 issue for small business in this country was reforming the independent contractor legislation, getting simplifications so that the IRS could help decide who is and who is not an independent contractor, who is and who is not an employee, bringing some clarification to this needed area. For 26 years the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Archer] has been here fighting for capital gains, fighting for small business owners. This is a historic day, that the Democrat, the minority side, is talking about tax cuts, that they are talking about we want tax cuts, too, we just do not want quite as much, that it has gone so far, that this debate has come this far. The American people owe the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Archer] a debt of gratitude for the fact that he has been here, he has been fighting in the vineyards, he has been a lonely voice for a very long time, but now the President is on his side.”