Charles Rangel: “I was moved by his story of the hardship that he felt as a result of the estate tax. What the heck that has got to do…”

“I was moved by his story of the hardship that he felt as a result of the estate tax. What the heck that has got to do with collecting debts that is owed to the Internal Revenue, I have no idea. If you're suggesting that we kill the bill that eliminates bounty hunters from working on commission and unfairly leaning and putting pressure on people who owe the Federal Government, that's one thing. If you want us to just substitute that and take back to the committee your idea about what we should do with the estate tax, well, you know as well as I do that we have to find out how much money do we lose, where do we raise the money, and do it in a Republican-Democratic fiscal fashion to say, hey, I want to reduce taxes here and raise it someplace else, maybe on the kids, maybe on a little tobacco, maybe whatever makes you feel good, but don't kill something with a parliamentary motion. It's not the right thing to do.”