Patrick J. Tiberi: “Patient care is not a partisan issue, and I urge all of my colleagues on this Committee to cosponsor this non-partisan…”

Today, if you are a successful pass-through--and no one is going to guarantee that you are a successful business owner--in America, you are paying almost 45 percent of what you make at the top bracket just to the Federal Government.

On rollcall No. 322 (passage of H.R. 2842), I did not cast my vote. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on this vote. PERSONAL EXPLANATION

I thank Congressman Gibbs for yielding. The Akron Beacon Journal, a few days ago, wrote an extraordinary editorial about Ralph Regula. The last paragraph sums Congressman Regula up best: ``What would benefit Congress and the country today…

I take issue with the fact that, as a pass-through, getting a tax cut is not appropriate.