Marcy Kaptur: “I just wanted to mention jobs, J-O-B-S; and the Republican tax cut bill is a job killer. There is plenty of evidence…”

“I just wanted to mention jobs, J-O-B-S; and the Republican tax cut bill is a job killer. There is plenty of evidence that this plan is merely a repeat of what happened in 2001 in this Congress, in the first Bush tax bill that came before us where now we have lost 3 million more jobs across this country. It is also a debt-accumulator bill. This tax bill is not going to balance the budget. It is going to increase the deficit. I always thought Republicans were budget balancers. That is what Republicans used to be. They are not that anymore. And I just wanted to point out back in 1981 when Congressman Dick Cheney was a Member of this House, I came here 2 years later in the midst of the worst recession America had faced since the Great Depression. July 29, 1981, when Mr. Cheney chaired the Republican Policy Committee here, a bill was passed that they called the 1981 tax cut bill. And in the following 2 years, millions of Americans were thrown on to unemployment lines; and I became part of a class to try to restore economic integrity to this country.”