J.C. Watts: “many of our friends in the Democrat party have been spending a lot of time lately accusing this of being a do nothing…”

“many of our friends in the Democrat party have been spending a lot of time lately accusing this of being a do nothing Congress, and I guess coming from a Democrat that is a tremendous compliment. Do you know what it means when they accuse us of doing nothing? It means we are not raising taxes, that means we are not spending enough of the surplus. We have not raided the Social Security surplus. We are not making government regulations burdensome enough. Mr. Speaker, I say to my friends I consider the definition of ``doing nothing'' as a badge of honor. And do you know why? Because my Democrat friends and the Vice President have a funny definition of accomplishments. They do not consider it an accomplishment to end the unfair penalty on married couples. They do not consider it an accomplishment to end the earnings limit for working seniors. They do not consider it an accomplishment to say that the Federal Government or the IRS should not take half your farm when you die, half of your business when you die. They do not consider it an accomplishment to make prescription drugs available and affordable to our senior citizens in the country. This is what we have done over the last several months. Democrats may not consider these things to be accomplishments, but millions of Americans who work every day, get up, they pay their taxes.”