Joe Barton: “This is about making it more difficult to raise taxes, but not making it impossible. One very good thing about our…”

“This is about making it more difficult to raise taxes, but not making it impossible. One very good thing about our amendment: It would take bipartisan support to pass any additional tax increases because it is very unlikely that either political party is going to have 67 percent of the House and the Senate at the same time in the modern era, and as has been pointed out numerous times during the debate this afternoon, the last major tax increase that we had 22 years ago passed by two votes in the House, with no Republican voting for it, and by a tie breaker vote the Vice President, Mr. Gore, voting for it in the Senate. That is not bipartisanship, that is one political party with a very slim majority forcing a massive tax increase, in this case the largest tax increase in American history, down the throats of the American people.”