Steve Largent: “I listened to the passionate but wrongheaded arguments for this Lowey amendment, and I rise in strong opposition to that…”

Absolutely. I would just submit, Mr. Speaker, that the relationship of the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Frank] with another man does not threaten my marriage whatsoever, my marriage of 21 years with the same woman.

The Government has a lot of spectrum. We need to try to figure out a way to free it up.

I would tell the gentleman in all sincerity that I am prepared to do that and would do it willingly, that I participated in a number of the tax shelters that the Congresses in the past created that were a total disaster, and I would have…

I would just say that I have not seen the amendment yet. I look forward to reading it here in just a second. But I would just say that in my mind what I see this doing is what the gentleman is saying, is that we are not asking for one…