Bill Archer: “Mr. Speaker, today will be another day of accomplishment for the American people because today Congress will once again…”

“Mr. Speaker, today will be another day of accomplishment for the American people because today Congress will once again do the right thing and pass a plan to help make health care more affordable and accessible for hard-working, middle-income, self-employed Americans. We will also strengthen our pension system for millions of Americans and make it better for working women and people who switch jobs so often and in that way all Americans can be more secure in their retirement. Mr. Speaker, I am proud that Congress is here today once again pushing to remove the gruesome death tax penalty from the Tax Code and to send it one step closer to the grave. Clearly, the death tax is one of the most unfair taxes in the Tax Code today. It is terribly complex and, what is worse, at a time when the only economic cloud on our horizon is our negative private savings rate, the death tax is a dollar for dollar tax on the personal savings of Americans. That is wrong. Furthermore, it often prevents families from being able to see their small businesses go down to their heirs and forced to be sold in order to pay the tax. No one should have to visit the undertaker and the IRS on the same day. Today the House considers the Small Business Tax Fairness Act to help the diesel engine of our economy and the job creation factory of our country. That factory is America's small businesses.”