David Thomas: “Mr. Speaker, if this were a debate on the budget and the decision before the House was to bind every spending measure…”

“Mr. Speaker, if this were a debate on the budget and the decision before the House was to bind every spending measure and every tax measure to a PAYGO rule, the debate might be more appropriate. But to assign to one particular tax cut, and only one, a rule that is not applied to any other decision in this House, whether spending or tax cuts, seems to me to point out that somebody does not like making sure that married people pay no more tax than any other two taxpayers. It took us a long time to reach this point. It seems to me the gentleman's points will be well taken during a debate on the budget. There are a lot of people anxious to find out whether or not they are going to be able to continue the current marriage tax structure that we have. The gentleman from California (Mr. Rohrabacher) and Rhonda Rohrabacher have diapers to change. Let us not leave them in suspense. Vote no on the motion to recommit and yes on the underlying bill.”