With this first initiative from the Finance Committee - and there will be more in other areas where we have jurisdiction - we want the victims through all of the affected areas to know that they can count on us to create a set of measures that will return vitality and vigor to the Gulf region. |
You have a responsibility to help less fortunate Americans cope with the high cost of heating fuels, |
You have a responsibility to help less fortunate Americans cope with the high cost of heating fuels. It's not unreasonable to expect corporations with 50, 75 or 100 percent growth in earnings this quarter to contribute a mere 10 percent of those profits to fuel fund programs, |
You know there are powerful interests here -- we call them K Street lobbyists -- that are very prone to defending this sort of things, ... There's big fees for defending them on the Hill. |
You see the sort of inconsistency that I get from my members, |
You've got the Berlin subway being built by Berlin taxpayers, leased to some corporation in America, ... There's no risk. It will never be the property of the corporation. And they get the tax benefits. Indirectly, you're having American taxpayers pay for the infrastructure of Europe. |