Rob Portman: “I have heard a lot about the do-nothing Congress. I am getting kind of tired of it. The 105th Congress has been a very…”

“I have heard a lot about the do-nothing Congress. I am getting kind of tired of it. The 105th Congress has been a very active Congress. The balanced budget we all know about, the first balanced budget in over 30 years, the first tax cuts in over 16 years, welfare reform that has moved people from dependency to dignity. This year we continue to be busy. Later today we are going to hear from the gentleman from New York (Mr. Gilman) and others on major environmental legislation called the Tropical Forest Conservation Act. It comes out of this Congress. We will be saving millions of acres of rain forests every year around the world through this legislation. We just heard about the Salton Sea Restoration Act Congress is going to pass today. The IRS reforms, just last week the Senate passed historic IRS reforms. Since 1952 the IRS has not seen major reform. We are going to actually make the IRS work for the taxpayers, rather than the other way around. A do-nothing Congress? It sounds more to me like a Congress that is doing plenty, in response to the concerns of the American people.”