Political Quotes

“I have to take a moment to pay very high tribute to the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Archer], and I would like the Members of the House to note something that is very significant that sometimes goes unnoticed in this debate. Americans all of my lifetime argued that lobbyists, the special interest groups, should not be able to carve out special benefits for themselves because they had powerful lobbyists or fancy lawyers, and in fact for many, many years, the years in which we were in the minority, the Tax Code had benefits carved out for special interest groups who because of the slickness and because of their ability to meet with the right people, to gain access to the right people, were able to carve out in the Tax Code loopholes that were not fair. Now I listened to this from liberals all these years about the need to close loopholes, and it took the elevation of the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Archer] to become chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means so that over the course of the last 2 years we have closed loopholes, we have closed loopholes on those powerful special interest groups that were able to carve out benefits that should have flowed to all hard-working American taxpayers.”