[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 23]
[House]
[Page 32180]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         THE DEMOCRATS ARE LATE

  (Mr. AKIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. AKIN. Madam Speaker, we all have to struggle from time to time 
with the bad practice of being late. We don't like to be late, and the 
reason we don't is, of course, when we're late, we inconvenience 
somebody. If you're late to the car pool, a couple of people have to 
sit there and wait and you've got to choke your breakfast down a little 
bit quicker so you don't inconvenience someone.
  But you know the Democrats have been very late. But when the Congress 
is late, it is really a big inconvenience, because the Democrats knew 
that they had to pass the AMT patch some months ago and they didn't do 
it. And so what does that mean? It means not just a few people in the 
car pool. What it means is 32 million Americans will not get their tax 
refund; $87 billion will be late to 32 million Americans because the 
Democrats are late in dealing with the AMT tax patch. They tried to put 
it together with a $3.5 trillion tax increase, the mother of all tax 
increases. Of course that didn't work, and now we're late.

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