Political Quotes

“let me say that in this package, there is really less than meets the eye. There is not very much wrong with it. The problem is not what is in the package but what is not in the package. The problem is that after every one of these reforms is passed, the lives of the average American will not be made very much better. And so any claims that the millennium has arrived because we have passed something like this are grossly overstated. It is not that it is bad, it is just that the claims for it are exaggerated. Let us go through them one by one. Cutting committee staff by one-third. Fine. But what about the millions of Americans who either do not have jobs or the tens of millions with job insecurity? Baseline budgeting. Great. But you have still got to cut. You cannot just change the baseline. Term limits for committee chairmen. It does not matter how long they stay. It is how good they are. If they are good, they should stay a long time. If they are bad, three terms is too many. Opening all meetings to the public. That is already done. Three-fifths voting for tax increases. Well, does this mean that we are going to see taxes simply reduced on the rich? What about saying that we should not reduce taxes on people who make above $250,000 without three-fifths so it is harder to reduce taxes on the very rich and we can make sure the tax cuts go to the middle class who we are supposedly all talking about?”