Pete Sessions: “Once again, I will reiterate that this bill is about doing great things for events that have happened in this country. I…”

“Once again, I will reiterate that this bill is about doing great things for events that have happened in this country. I really can't imagine that Members would want to simply take the things that the leadership class of people from Mrs. Pelosi want to vote against-- disaster tax relief for people all across California, all across the Mariana Islands, and all across the country--except just to say that I do know that people in their party oppose the tax bill. I get that. But there is more money coming in today than there was yesterday. There are millions of more people who have a job today than yesterday. I do know the numbers that were expressed are numbers that they want to tout, but that is not the way it worked. That was what the CBO said. But the reality of the circumstance is some 4 million people today have a job who did not have one and had been looking. Mr. Speaker, just a few years ago, the major newspapers and major magazines across America said: We are going to just have to get used to this is the way the world is now--high unemployment, higher taxation. Newsweek magazine had on its cover: ``Is America Really Turning Socialist?'' The answer came back that the American people disagree with unemployment. The American people disagree with high taxes. The American people see what is happening in California, 55,000 homeless people in Los Angeles. That is not an accident.…”