Political Quotes

“I have a different view on this. To my good friend from Oregon, who has been a real gentleman to work with-- and you have great staff, and I appreciate our ability to work together. But we have a little different view of what we are doing here tonight, so I am going to give you our side of the story. I have charts too. I never thought I would have a chart, but I have one. We are trying to do sort of four things tonight: Start a process that we can make the tax cuts permanent; give money to the Department of Homeland Security to continue to secure our border; cut trillions of dollars of waste, which does exist; and support our military. Now, the bill tonight, the resolution, opens up that process that will be done by the House and the Senate authorizing committees. So this doesn't do anything other than start the game, and it is time this game started. Now, what is in this for you if you are not a billionaire? Which I am not. If we do nothing, if we do nothing, the 2017 President Trump tax cuts expire in December. None of them voted for it. They are going to expire, and what does that mean to you? Six million jobs will be lost. The average taxpayer would see a 22-percent tax hike if the tax cuts expire. A family of four making $80,610--the median income in the United States--would see a $1,695 tax increase if they expire this December. This is worth about 9 weeks of groceries. Forty million families would see their household child tax credit cut in half.…”