Political Quotes

“reserving the right to object, we have been here before. We try to legislate here, and the program of the Republicans in the Senate has been to divert, deny, and obstruct. I asked the Chair when we started what we were doing here, and we are on a small business jobs bill. It is extremely important legislation. It would give small businesses across America--small businesses with less than 500 employees--and that is where most jobs are created--a 10- percent tax credit for hiring more people, and it would also give them the ability, this year, to purchase equipment and write that off. It would be great for the economy. We are told by outside experts that it would create about a million jobs. What we have before us is something that the Republicans in the House have sent us. It is their version of this. It is the ``help Paris Hilton'' legislation. It would give people like her a tax break for doing nothing--$46 billion of the American people's money to help Paris Hilton and others. It would give people a tax break for doing nothing-- nothing. And for my friend the Republican leader to talk about small businesses being hurt with the proposal of the President--that is not true. As I said in my opening statement, 98 percent of the American people would have the benefit of that tax benefit, and 97\1/2\ percent of small businesses would benefit.…”