Jim Matheson: “here we are at the end of September, and I find it pretty remarkable we are still talking about this. I am convinced…”

“here we are at the end of September, and I find it pretty remarkable we are still talking about this. I am convinced that most people in this country expect us to come back here and get something done. I really do. When I meet with my constituents back home, there may be this issue that they care about or that issue they care about, but at the end of the day, they are looking for people to come back here and try to get something done. I supported H.R. 1308, the House passed-bill. I supported that. I also recognize that the United States Senate voted 94 to 2, 94 to 2, to fix this one problem. If we want to talk about the art of what is possible, and to get something done, then we ought to support this motion we are talking about right now. Let us talk about what is fair. Let us talk about what is right, and let us try to get something done. We are talking about folks in a lower-income situation. This was in the bill when the House and the Senate were first negotiating this tax cut package this last spring. It was taken out, $3.5 billion, which in the grand scheme of the overall cost of the bill was 1 percent, but it was taken out. But it is a pretty important $3.5 billion, pretty important to those families of all those kids. It is really important. It is so important, in fact, that 94 out of 96 senators thought so and voted to fix this problem.”