Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I just wish we were talking about the marriage tax penalty. We are talking about a budget process... If my colleagues want to know why the American people are overtaxed, they are overtaxed because they are paying $240 billion every year in interest payments. And until we have a budget to know where these matters fit, these tax cuts that we all support, like the marriage tax penalty, no sane, rational business person in this country would go about cutting their income before they knew where they stood and what is their outgo. We say, unless they have a creditable framework where we know we are going to retire debt, where we know we are going to take care of Social Security and Medicare, where we know, is it a higher priority to cut taxes on married people like they say they have but which they do not, but like they say it is to take care of rural health care needs in this country? If my colleagues believe that, then vote for this rule.”