Political Quotes

“I so appreciate my colleague from Georgia, the president of the freshman class, for his comments on the family farm and standing up for family farmers all across America. One thing that we're going to face at the end of the year with the expiration of these tax rates and a need for us to commit firmly to comprehensive tax reform, I hope we all adopt a policy, a policy that I have heard from folks throughout my district, across my great State of New York, and across this entire Nation, and that is a firm commitment that they're looking for from Washington, D.C., to adopt tax policy that is going to be certain, that we adopt tax policy that is going to be permanent. Because as we ask our local manufacturers, our job creators of the United States of America, they need to know that when they make these decisions on millions, if not billions, of dollars in local plants to put people back to work that the rules of the road are going to be clear and they are going to be certain and they are going to be permanent so that they can rely on that certainty, so that they can make the investment necessary to get this economy going forward again, and making sure that they can rely on those rules and that they won't change midstream as we see with tax policy that extends on 10- year windows--or tax extenders, the 101 tax extender policies that either expired last year at the end of 2011 or will expire at the end of 2012, things as basic as the research and development tax credit for our manu…”