On the recordJuly 29, 2010
I appreciate and admire the fierce tenacity of Chairwoman Maloney as she fights for her constituents in New York, but I have a real problem with the way the bill is paid for. Looking at Texas Task Force 1 standing at Ground Zero, going through that rubble and their heroism, themselves, they went there to save survivors, not to raise taxes. And that's what this bill does. It kills American jobs. It raises taxes on companies that invest in America, that build American plants, that hire American workers, buy American equipment, pay American taxes. It punishes those companies that create U.S. jobs $7 billion. Why would we use 9/11 as an excuse to harm American jobs? It makes no sense at all. We can do better than this. We have to do better than this. This tax increase is absolutely inappropriate, and I urge its defeat.
