NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “It is tragic, in a sense, to come to the floor of this House and hear such extreme, shrill and, yes, I am saddened to…”

“It is tragic, in a sense, to come to the floor of this House and hear such extreme, shrill and, yes, I am saddened to say, false rhetoric from liberals who constantly apologize for expansion of government and higher taxes for the American people. The sad fact is that the Treasury Department and other partisans, such as my good friend from Oregon, are using books that have been cooked so much they are charcoal broiled. How many families do my colleagues know who pay rent to themselves, owning their own homes? That is what our friends say the American people do. That is why our friends would say that a middle-income family earning about $40,000 a year somehow makes in excess of $75,000 a year and somehow is wealthy. It does not add up. Indeed, when we come to saving Medicare, we worked out commonsense reforms with the very administration that I think my colleague from Oregon would champion. So let us return to a voice of reason, common sense, giving tax relief to working Americans.”