Political Quotes

“I appreciate what the gentlelady said. Frankly, what we should do here is--I'll take the amendment tonight and support it, and we can reform Social Security. I mean, we gave Jimmy Buffett and Warren Buffett a big break on Social Security with the payroll tax. We literally bankrupt the Social Security system. So if there is an amendment, I will take an amendment. If you want to take an amendment tonight, I will take it to close the loophole. In 2010, everyone here who paid their taxes paid more taxes than GE. They fought 57,000 pages of tax reform. And they were one of the highest taxpayers in China. If you've got a GE taxpaying amendment, I'll take it tonight. But every dollar is not the same. Let's cut Eric Holder more than we cut Director Mueller. Let's cut some climate issue over at NOAA, where nobody knows, more than we cut cyberterrorism. Let's cut something else rather than cutting the DA's backlog. To take it across the board is just not a good idea. Across-the-board cuts--and I think the gentlelady had it right-- really does kind of impact on the work that's gone on in the bill. It says $1 in one agency is just as dispensable and the same as any other agency. I agree with her that we've got to do everything we can. I was one of the people here who supported Simpson-Bowles. I never signed a Grover Norquist tax pledge. I want to do whatever we can to deal with this issue. I want to put everything on the table. But now we're going through the appropriations process.…”