Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I will be celebrating my 41st wedding anniversary on Valentine's Day, and am looking forward to that occasion, and my wife is too, and our seven remaining children are going to be there to celebrate it with us. It is something that, when I reflect on the importance of getting some kind of relief in our obscene Tax Code, is an issue that I struggled with, my wife struggled with, all of our kids struggled with, and I know you folks over here struggled with the same thing. It is something we are trying to address. Mr. Speaker, in my district in the State of Illinois we have the highest number of married couples that are being burdened with this marriage penalty tax in the entire State of Illinois. It is over 70,000 couples. That is over 140,000 individuals in my Congressional District.”