NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “Mr. Speaker, I guess another technique in debate is to deliberately misunderstand some assertions on the floor. In…”

“Mr. Speaker, I guess another technique in debate is to deliberately misunderstand some assertions on the floor. In listening to the rather heated and personal comments from my friends, and righteous indignation, I would say, number one, we dare not lose what is at stake here over a notion of the checkout line in terms of Americans being willing to put their lives on the line, first of all, Mr. Speaker. And I would hope that not entering this debate is the notion that somehow those who serve their country are taking out a tote board and a computer to adhere to the duty that they have sworn and the honor they defend and the freedom that they are defending for us all, number one. Let us dare not denigrate the military with a kind of checkout line and taking a cipher to tax policy, number one. Number two, to hear the same tired rhetoric that tax relief only benefits the wealthy, that some who come to this Chamber and offer, even when they barely suppress a smile, the fallacy in that has to be pointed out even in the child tax credit because this credit, under existing law, is phased out for single parents with incomes over $75,000 and married couples with incomes over $110,000.”