Political Quotes

“I have been listening this evening to the presentations of the last two speakers and I am struck by how, with powerful presentations, I think with a logic which is difficult to challenge, and with oration rhetoric they have laid out the challenge facing American workers with a tax bill, with a tax initiative coming from the majority that is going to raise taxes on working families, driven by a budget by the majority that took revenues from applying the AMT to 23 million taxpayers and now is requiring the majority to look willy-nilly for ways of bridging that tax gap, we now come to the mother of all tax hikes, which has been rolled out in our committee, presented as a tax reform, but ultimately I think is an albatross that would be a dead drag on the American economy. There are so many problems with the majority's mother of all tax hikes that, frankly, Mr. Speaker, I sincerely doubt that one hour would allow us to do justice to all of them. So tonight I'd like to focus my remarks on how working families in districts like mine are, as a result of the bill, potentially going to be facing one whopping marriage penalty, see a reduction on the value of deductions for things like mortgage interest and State and local taxes.”