Gerald Kleczka: “So this is 2002. So we are talking about something that might happen and might not happen in 8 years from now?”

last year, the estate tax provisions enacted in the $1.35 trillion Bush tax cut would gradually increase the value of estates that are exempt from taxation, until completely repeating the estate tax for one year only, 2010, after which the…

I would challenge him to tell the House when we passed legislation to reduce the cost of prescription drugs for everybody in this country. There is a discharge petition pending and I challenge him to sign it if he is serious about that…

I always thought that charitable giving came from the heart and not through tax breaks in the Federal Tax Code. I come to the floor today to oppose this bill and I feel somewhat like the skunk at the picnic, but I think it is time that…

we are not currently at war with another nation and the Cold War has been over for more than a decade. But we alone already spend more on our military than the 21 countries with the next largest defense budgets combined. Our military…