Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I had an interesting conversation today with someone who deals with people in the lower economic classes. It was an interesting conversation because it was along the same theme that I often speak about behind this podium. That is the frustration she finds in the poor communities where the clergy again and again encourage young people to get married. The young people inform the clergy that they can't do it because the United States Government has established a bunch of programs that make it financially advantageous to not get married. Indeed, it is not unusual to have $20,000 or $25,000 or $30,000-a- year penalties for couples who get married, as opposed to situations in which a man is not in the household. Mr. Speaker, I strongly encourage my colleagues in this Chamber to, over the next few months, undo the horrid disincentives toward forming families that were put in by Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society. ____________________”