John Spratt: “Mr. Speaker, I think that I want to caution my friends on the Democratic side do not get excited. You guys understand…”

“Mr. Speaker, I think that I want to caution my friends on the Democratic side do not get excited. You guys understand this President is in total control of this country, and he lied to us about taxes and now it is coming home to roost. Do not get exercised because you have got to save your voice. We are going to have 2 years of this stuff where they can do anything they want. This bill is simply giving them the keys to the hen house. The fox has now got it. He has got votes in the Senate, got votes in the House, and the President is going to send up stuff here and he does not have to balance any budget anymore. But you all understand where it is coming from, do you not? I mean it is not falling out of the sky. This is a concentrated effort, and what they wanted to do was they wanted to give all those taxes away so there would be no money to deal with social programs, and now it happens and they are suddenly afraid. They were fools before. They were saying, well, you can give it all away and we do not have to worry.”