Political Quotes

“I came to this issue from the standpoint of agriculture and small business. The Democratic substitute is very attractive from the standpoint of immediate, substantial relief to those sorts of individuals, small businesses and family farms. The Democratic substitute, in my judgment, is weak in terms of addressing what I consider to be rates that are exorbitant, 55 percent. I do not believe in taking over half of anything by the government from the people. So we have that situation, but we have immediate and substantial relief. We have in the Republican bill almost no immediacy, but we have an addressing of the exorbitant rate I spoke about. I may be like many Members here in that I want something to happen this year. Nothing happened last year. I want it to happen not just in legislation, but to people, real people who have small businesses and family farms. That is the shortcoming of the underlying bill that I am a sponsor of. So I do not believe that the two ideas are necessarily mutually exclusive.”