Political Quotes

“having authored the Texas Sunset Act during my service as a Texas State Senator, I believe there is merit in the sunset process. That Texas law limits the life of every State agency, and I am working with a bipartisan coalition here in Congress to apply the same concept to limit the life and require sunsetting of each of our Federal agencies. Certainly our Tax Code could have a similar concept applied to it if done in the appropriate way. This Tax Code is overflowing with loopholes, it is permissive toward abusive corporate tax shelters, it is not fair to middle class taxpayers. Under this Republican congressional leadership, it has only gotten worse. The Tax Code has gotten bigger, it has gotten more inequitable, it has been filled with more special interest provisions. We can all certainly remember the effort of the Republican House leadership to sneak through here a $50 billion tax credit for the tobacco industry hidden in a small business tax bill. But the sunset process has to be applied in a systematic way, not as a political polemic.”