Political Quotes

“I serve on the Committee on Ways and Means, and we already have scheduled tomorrow morning bright and early an attempt to do just that. And I think our colleagues are aware that none of those people who suffered the loss of life in New York or out here at the Pentagon were killed because their taxes were too high. Rather, they were killed because one of the reasons was, immediate reason, we did not have the kind of security in our airline industry that we needed to have. Instead of dealing with that airline security, it is amazing but the same old agenda that our Republican colleagues were advancing the morning of September 10, they are back with it again and talking about capital gains cuts. They are talking about cutting the tax for the biggest corporations in the country, cutting the taxes for the most wealthy people in America. That is something we have already done at least once this year, I believe. And instead of dealing with security, they want to talk about those old ideas. It is not going to help us get this job done of assuring the safety of this industry to cut taxes. There may be some legitimate changes in the Tax Code, but we ought to focus on the stimulative effect of raising the wages of the workers that are charged with the responsibility of protecting our lives on these airplanes and getting them the skills that they need to do the job effectively.”