Political Quotes

“I also want to say what confuses me is I was in this Congress for over a decade listening to people talk about all these big giveaways to the rich, powerful special interests. Yet, the then-majority did not have the guts to take any of those special benefits away by closing loopholes. It was finally when the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Bill Archer] became chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means that we decided to deny special benefits to companies in Puerto Rico that were not living up to the spirit of the deal, to help people in Puerto Rico, and as the chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means that has closed a whole lot of loopholes and denied these loopholes to special interest groups so people who are normal, average working families can get tax relief, we ought to be given credit about that by everybody, on both sides of the aisle.”