Watson Coleman: “the comments of my colleague from North Dakota indicate that they do reject the Dean-Gephardt proposal that will roll…”

“the comments of my colleague from North Dakota indicate that they do reject the Dean-Gephardt proposal that will roll back all the tax cuts. Two observations: No. 1, spending. Goodness gracious, the Republican Conference has rejected $1.3 trillion in additional spending proposals from my colleagues across the aisle since the beginning of January. That is like the kid who kills his parents and throws himself on the mercy of the court and says: I need mercy. I am an orphan. You are talking about spending and, in addition, talking about tax cuts. We always hear: Tax cuts for the rich, tax cuts for the rich. Seventy-nine percent of the tax cuts at the top bracket are small business people. They are folks in Minnesota I deal with all of the time who come to me and say: This makes a difference; this is important to us. Seventy-nine percent. We have to get away from the class warfare and recognize that we are growing jobs by helping small business.”