Political Quotes

“Mr. President, thanks to Senator Booker. I will be very brief. I want to hear from Senator Bennet, and I know that the Presiding Officer is going to switch chairs and be out here speaking on this. I am so appreciative of the Presiding Officer, who won his election just in--on January 5. He was declared the winner--I don't know. Georgia elections are a little different from those of us from other places, and as soon as he was named the winner of that election, he came here and has been in the Senate about 6 or 7 weeks now and is already a leader on this fight that Senator Booker talked about in the child tax credit and the earned income tax credit. I have been here long enough to remember when the earned income tax credit was--people just didn't know much about it, including our constituents. I used to, when I was a Member of the House, I would ask accountants--CPAs and public accountants--to volunteer their time a couple of Saturdays a month for the 2 or 3 months before April 15. They would volunteer their time, and we encouraged people to sign up for the earned income tax credit, and people making $20,000 or $25,000 a year with kids would often get $2,000 or $3,000 in a tax refund, in real dollars back, because they benefited from the earned income tax credit. So what Senator Bennet and I have worked on for a number of years is to continue to expand the earned income tax credit and now a big expansion of the child tax credit.…”