Bill Archer: “I just happened to be walking through, and we should be accurate in what we say here on the floor of the House. No. 1…”

“I just happened to be walking through, and we should be accurate in what we say here on the floor of the House. No. 1, the provision that was put into the health care deductibility for self-employed was engineered and pushed and implemented by Carol Moseley-Braun from Chicago, a Democrat Senator, and made its way into the conference report as a result of her compelling arguments that this in effect was a preexisting contractual obligation, a binding contract that was made before the effective date. So we should fully understand that the gentlewoman from Colorado and the gentleman from California are just ill-informed about this particular provision. I am not here to defend Rupert Murdoch. I do not know him, and have nothing to do with him. But I will simply say this also: that the facts are that Rupert Murdoch gets no tax benefits out of this provision even though it was engineered by a Democrat Senator from Illinois and put in the bill by a Democrat Senator from Illinois. The benefit does not go to Rupert Murdoch. He gets no tax break out of this provision, and the facts should be presented to the American people rather than all of this continued rhetoric with all of the props of golden crowns and all of the other things that are emotionally presented to this House. We should deal with the facts as they exist.”