Lee Terry: “I appreciate the compliment from my colleague, the gentleman from New York, on my creativity, but I did feel the…”

“I appreciate the compliment from my colleague, the gentleman from New York, on my creativity, but I did feel the necessity to unlock that cage so the world could see this tiger. Because what my friends on the other side of the aisle were doing was putting a tarp over it so nobody could see that in this cage was $116 billion worth of new taxes and 84 new programs. I thought we needed to shed some light on this, and nobody on their side of the aisle took the leadership to show the public this. So I will back up my talk with the walk, and we can vote on it today. Mr. Speaker, I also heard that we were trying to embarrass the President. Frankly, I wish the teachers that were here today were listening to this and showing it to their civics classes, because today, Mr. Speaker, we saw the difference. We saw the difference between us. We saw how they will advocate for a tax increase of $116 billion to support their 84 more programs. That is taxing and spending, Mr. Speaker. That is the difference. We are here saying that the way we help everybody in America is that we control the growth of government. In a time when we are dealing with trillion dollar surpluses, that is not a time to grow government for more taxes. Now is the time to start saying, how do we help the people that are overpaying taxes?”