Political Quotes

“I am so pleased that the last speaker raised this issue of corporate loopholes, because it is the same crowd that stood in the Committee on Ways and Means repeatedly and on the floor of this House and has defended corporations that renounce their citizenship and head off for tax havens like Bermuda. They say that this is fine, that this is legal, and that we do not need to do anything about it. As to the Government Pension Offset and the issue of the alleged "loophole" in Texas, what the gentleman failed to mention is that we offered in committee to close the alleged "loophole" for Texas teachers, but to do it in connection with reforming the GPO problem that they have consistently refused to correct all this time. Fix the two together. We make them that same offer today. This is not about gimmicks in Texas, it is about people that file bills, as the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Shaw) has done, that they never intend to move through the Congress; file bills they do not even get a hearing on, and say they are on the side of the firefighters, police officers, and teachers while doing nothing for them.”