Political Quotes

“There are many good things about this CR. One of the best is that it won't shut down the government. It is shocking to me that our Republican colleagues seem to want to shut down the government, with all of these services and necessary things it does for the people of the United States. This CR does many good things. I want to focus on one of them, the 87,000 extra new agents to be hired for enforcement by the Internal Revenue Service. That is an excellent thing because what will they do? They will go after the rich people. By the terms of the statute, by the terms of the CR, they cannot be used for enforcement of taxes against anybody earning less than $400,000, so we are not talking about the middle class. The rich people in this country are cheating. They are cheating tremendously. They are cheating to the tune of tens of billions of dollars because they know they can get away with it and because there is no manpower or womanpower to enforce the law. This will give us the manpower to enforce the law. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired. Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 30 seconds to the gentleman from New York.”