Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding me the time. I appreciate it. Mr. Speaker, here we are again where the minority party isn't even using their time to oppose the bill put forward by the majority. Just 2 weeks ago, the last major piece of legislation that we passed by suspension of the rules, the Democrat minority party voted for it 207-2. It will be interesting tonight to see how many Democrats vote for this and how many Republicans vote for it. I am against this because of the suspension of the rules, the process that we are using. I am against it because the expansion of the welfare state. I am against it because we are not correcting the fact that illegals can have access to the child tax credit. I have never done this on the House floor before, but I am going to read what someone else wrote about this bill. This is from Kevin Roberts with Heritage Foundation. I commend them for what they said: ``Although, the bill claims that its aim is to provide `tax relief' to families with children, it contains very little relief for working families. Instead, nearly 91.5 percent of the `family benefits' in this bill are cash welfare payments to families who pay no Federal income taxes. . . . the bill provides $30.6 billion in new welfare cash payments. If these new cash welfare benefits were extended over 10 years (which is very likely) the total cost would exceed $140 billion.'' The Ways and Means bill moves toward fulfilling President Biden's aims.…”