Rob Andrews: “I thank my friend from Georgia for engaging in good spirit in this dialogue. I would simply want to make it clear: I…”

“I thank my friend from Georgia for engaging in good spirit in this dialogue. I would simply want to make it clear: I think it's the position of our party very clearly the House should vote on whether to avoid this thousand-dollar tax increase on the middle class. That's our position. I think you can hear that the majority position is a little more nuanced than that. It is a yes-or-no question. We think there ought to be a vote on avoiding a thousand-dollar tax increase on the middle class. And we're ready to put our cards in the machine and do that. {time} 1400 Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. My friend, the gentleman from Georgia, said that his party likes to pay for things. That statement startled me a little bit because they didn't think it was important to pay for the Bush tax cuts, mostly for the rich, which have now bankrupted us. They didn't think it was important to pay for the Medicare prescription drug bill, which was a lot more expensive than they had promised and was not paid for. They don't think about paying for the two wars that we're fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. We had balanced budgets when Bill Clinton left office. It was after that that everything got out of whack, and it was because of these tax cuts, which were mostly for the wealthy, and it was because of a prescription drug bill and two wars, all of which were not paid for.…”