Joe Cunningham: “I grew up in Missouri, and many of the folks who pass away, they try to pass down their farms, and they have to sell off…”

“I grew up in Missouri, and many of the folks who pass away, they try to pass down their farms, and they have to sell off the farm that they have had in their family for 200 years because they cannot afford to pay the taxes on it, up to 55 percent. Mr. Speaker, this is the silly season. It is election time. We hear tax breaks for the rich. We hear the Republicans are cutting education. The White House is cutting education. Do not let the facts get in the way of the truth. The Secretary, point by point, refuted every single claim that the gentlewoman from Ohio was making that we are cutting education, or that the President's budget cuts education. The President's primary concern is that no child is left behind. My wife is a special assistant to the Secretary for Education for Management, a position that the Clinton administration totally did away with and caused a lot of the fraud, waste and abuse.”