Political Quotes

“as the person that represents the Committee on Ways and Means on the Republican side very well knows, there are more than 50 provisions in this bill that required a waiver of a point of order. This provision did not get that waiver and stands out by exception. Now, he makes a point about observing the rules. The point is, from our perspective, this was an exception to the rule. Why? We had tried to work together, Republicans and Democrats; the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Taylor) and I have worked very well together. The gentleman is aware that he is the one that came in and said no, do not provide the waiver for this one issue on the study. We do not want to punish the Joint Committee on Taxation employees. What we wanted to do was provide their entire increase. We are providing the base level that is currently funding their employees at $6.3 million, but the increase, let us just suspend it so we can get the report, because for 3 years, we have not gotten the report. I do not know why the gentleman does not want that report, He has the ability to get that report. If he was interested in providing legislation to stop these people who are denouncing their citizenship to avoid taxes, he has the ability to get that legislation. It is only the gentleman from New York (Mr. Rangel) that has had to continue putting on the pressure to get this information. The American people want this information. They deserve to get it.”