[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 22083]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   CANDY FOR THE WEALTHIEST AMERICANS

  (Mr. YARMUTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. YARMUTH. Madam Speaker, this week, the Senate and the House will 
be asked to vote on a package of tax extenders and other provisions 
that will provide great benefits for many hardworking American families 
and for low-income people. Unfortunately, this comes at a very high 
price to the American people and to the national debt.
  We are being asked by Republican leaders in the Senate to give 
benefits to the very wealthiest Americans, including an estate tax 
provision that will benefit only 6,600 families--the wealthiest 
families in America.
  This is like going to the hospital with a serious illness and having 
the doctor say to you, I'm going to give you $250,000 worth of care 
that's really going to help you; but in order to get it, you're going 
to have to eat $100,000 worth of candy that's going to do nothing for 
you but add a lot of weight down the road--to our national debt and to 
our children and grandchildren.
  This is a bad deal for the American people, and I hope my colleagues 
will reject it.

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