Adam Smith

When the President has proposed his tax cuts, for 3 years he has talked about the number of jobs he is going to create. The figure that he used for the tax cut that was passed was 1.2 million. He has fallen way short of at this point, I…

That cannot possibly be true. I would be happy to take a look at it, but it is not just over 15 years. At the end of 15 years the quotas are still there. They are just slightly larger than they are now. It does not even get rid of them. So…

I am here today to take issue with the previous testimony before committees of the Congress that suggests that anesthesia causes fetal demise. I believe that I am qualified to address this issue because I am a practicing obstetric…

I think what is important is we clarify what is being talked about. We have had the issue of conscience on this floor before from civil rights to war protesting. Choices are not being challenged here. Every woman still has a choice. But we…

I think the issue here that we are all talking about is not whether we want to move the statue.

I think it points to the fact that many people here over the years know what the American people want. And they want this place cleaned up. But they are not real serious about doing it. But they want to make it look like they are trying…

You, know, we saw that in the State. They would have these big fund raisers, and actually the special interests did not want to take on another incumbent, so what they would do is give a whole lot of money or channel from their membership…

The gentleman is making an example that is pretty flagrant, but people around America see these things. They live and they see and they hear their neighbors talk about these things, and I think it makes sense, then, when we see the polls…

I know that I certainly will look at anything seriously and get it moving that returns power to the States and gets those campaigns back into the streets of the States where we come from instead of the side rooms or the side cafes and…

That is right. I was an incumbent in our State. I had an 88 percent name ID, and so that gave me a help. But what if you were just some good person that wanted to run and you were going to have to run against an incumbent called the ``PAC…

Yes, and when people see that they are not going to have to be running a campaign against every big special interest group in the Nation, it kind of encourages them to get involved. And I am encouraged because I believe that there is…

We forget how strong the package was for seniors, but I want to talk about working families again, just real quick. We heard about an average $120-some tax break. There are not any ``quarter'' of a children. Next April, under this plan…

That would have been wrong. He would have been eliminating the children's tax credit.

So when they file their tax returns, if they have two kids next year, right now they would have $1,000 they could keep to buy a washer or dryer or something for their family. Under this, they would have to wait for 2 years out, hopefully…

I was really confused during the vote, but am I to understand that when people file their tax return next year that there was another provision in there, too, that would have eliminated a child tax credit in the first year? I do not think…

So that family next April when they come in and have their tax return done, that family is going to get $500 off their taxes per child. What was the rate? You know, I had heard it but I cannot remember. What was the rate? In 1948 I do know…

So it does not go to the rich unless some of us in the middle there are in the rich?

It is not free. My five grandkids are going to get the bill. We are spending $200 million a year. It is not free. You are charging to each of my grandkids every month a debt they cannot pay, and it is not free. And if we do not pay…

No. We need to regulate right. When a regulation is needed, it is needed, and sometimes we have to say there needs to be some rules, but the reality is the Federal Government is regulating where it is not necessary. So we put some…

Yes. I think it is fantastic, because my background is taxation and finance for small business. You know, that was my life before this. I ran a tax preparation business and a management business and was a licensed tax consultant, so it…

Worse than that, they have the inheritance tax in some cases, depending on when their spouse dies.

I went away for a weekend and came back after Labor Day, and there was a write-in going on, and 2 weeks later I was the person on the ballot with the most votes. But they were write-in votes.

I just reverted into being a mom and a grandma, but I was a senator, too, and I think it seems worse to me than ridiculous rules, letting a rapist off, or letting someone that violently hurt someone off. I think what we have done in this…

That is something that amazed me when I got here. I was in the State Senate and the House and we always had a balanced budget amendment, and we had line-item veto. In fact, we not only had line-item veto for the budget, we had it for every…

I said, you know, that is really something. I said I was never coming to Congress. My polls were very high for the last 6 years, nearly 90 percent, I said I am not going because those guys are not doing anything. I am pretty glad to say…