Mark Neumann: “I commend the chairman of this committee and also the ranking minority member from the other side of the aisle, this is…”

“I commend the chairman of this committee and also the ranking minority member from the other side of the aisle, this is great work. It is great for the future of this country. I would agree with the comments of the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. Gephardt] that this is really about the future of America. We just have a very different vision of who it is that can best spend money in this country, we here in Washington or the people themselves. I have a presentation but I want to start talking about a family in my district. It is a middle income family. It is a family with three kids. They are about to start college. It is a family whose parents both get up and go to work every single day of the week. I talked to this family about this budget plan, too, and, frankly, they did not understand billions and trillions very well, and they did not understand CBO and OMB and all that stuff, but what they did understand is how this budget plan was going to impact them directly out in Janesville, WI. Because this middle income family that gets up every morning to go to work understood perfectly well what it meant when we said for every child that is still at home they will receive a $500 credit. They understood perfectly well on their $40,000-a-year income what $1,000 meant coming into their house.”