Political Quotes

“Mr. President, we stand here today, the day before tax day--the day when all Americans have to get their income taxes together--and we also stand here in the middle of the weakest economic recovery since the Great Depression--a time when economists across the spectrum agree there is an urgent need for us to take our Tax Code and make it more efficient, to reform our Tax Code to help grow our economy and add jobs. And instead of an administration or leadership in this body proposing serious tax reforms that will actually get people back to work, we are spending this week debating a political proposal that no one can credibly argue will create a single job, except maybe some tax accountants because it adds more complexity to an already way too complex Tax Code. Unfortunately, this has become ``tax gimmick week'' here in Washington. It is particularly disappointing because as a Nation we are stuck in an historically weak economy with high unemployment, record long-term unemployment, and anemic economic growth. This recovery we are in is different, sadly. We are still millions of jobs down from where we were at the start of the recession, which was about 4 years ago. It is interesting to compare it to other recoveries. In 2001, the so-called jobless recovery, at this point in the recovery about 4 years after the recession, the Nation had not only brought back all the jobs that were lost in the recession but we had added hundreds of thousands of new jobs.…”