Political Quotes

“Thank you, Madam President. As the Presiding Officer well knows, last December, Republicans voted to cut the taxes that American families pay. We simplified the tax system. We made it fairer and cut the rates. Every single Democrat in the Senate voted against giving Americans this tax relief that they needed--every single one of them. Democrats claimed that only rich people would benefit and that businesses would never share their savings with workers. The Democratic Leader, Senator Schumer, actually said that tax cuts such as these only benefit the wealthy and the powerful, to the exclusion of the middle class. So what happened? What have we seen all across America? The American people know that the Democrats were wrong. The very day the tax bill passed the Congress, AT&T came out and said they were giving their workers a bonus. The company said that 200,000 hard-working employees were going to get an extra $1,000 each directly because of the tax relief law. Over the next few weeks, more than 4 million Americans got similar good news: They were going to get bonuses too. They learned that they would be getting a bonus or a pay increase because of the tax law. More than 500 companies have said that because their taxes went down, they were sharing the savings with their workers. In my home State of Wyoming, these are people who work at places like Home Depot, Lowe's, Walmart, and Starbucks.…”