Martin Heinrich: “Thank you. And I think that's a perfect example. You know, facts are stubborn things, and when you show these graphs…”

“Thank you. And I think that's a perfect example. You know, facts are stubborn things, and when you show these graphs, they don't lie. They tell a story of an economy out of control and how we have been able to turn that around and move it back in the right direction. And I think when you talk about the Recovery Act, it's important to realize that an enormous portion of the Recovery Act was about taxes as well. If you look at the rhetoric versus the data on the whole issue of taxes, you see a very different story than the one you might hear in some of the national media or see on a placard at a Tea Party rally for that matter. The USA today talked about how, Mr. Tonko, if you would be so kind as to hold this up, a headline, ``Tax bills in 2009 at the lowest level since 1950.'' We passed an enormous tax relief package as part of the Recovery Act so that people would have those hard-earned dollars in their pockets and put them to work for our Nation. And if you look at how much support we had to do that from our colleagues on the other side of the aisle, it was nonexistent, if you look at the work that we did for the homebuyer tax credit, which was absolutely critical to bringing back our housing market and construction jobs in this country.”