On the recordDecember 20, 2011
Mr. Speaker, I will just simply say that if you are looking for a bipartisan approach to legislation, if you are looking for someone who wants to work with the White House, 90 percent of our offsets have been agreed to by the President. And I will simply say that when the President is right--and I don't agree with him very often--he is right. The President said that Congress should not go home for vacation until it finds a way to avoid hitting 160 million Americans with a tax hike on January 1. It would be inexcusable for Congress not to extend this tax holiday for an entire year. I think a bipartisan approach has been taken. I am assured by that fact because the President and I are on the same page, and that doesn't happen but once every year. It must be Christmas. I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Texas, Chairman Jeb Hensarling.
