mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, i yield myself 10 seconds. mr. speaker, i hear a lot about the bush tax cuts. if they were so good where are the jobs? i think it's simply wrong to have the middle class in this country bear the burden when the donald trumps are getting tax cuts. i yield one minute to the gentlewoman from texas, ms. jackson lee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from texas is recognized for one minute. ms. jackson lee: i thank the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. speaker, this is a very tough place to put america. not members of congress. we are paid to come here and do our job. but it's a very tough place to put america. and so i have a simple state of facts to present today and listen to my other colleagues, which i will, because it is a tough decision to in actuality support legislation th seems to be driven by thoughts that the only way to get something done is to hold a whole country hostage and a whole congress hostage. on the brink of august 2, we're now throwing something on the floor that is arguably supposed to be

mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, i yield one minute to the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. fatah. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. fatah: this is an inside job. i want to offer just in evidence that, you know, we had in the words of the treasury secretary for reagan and for bush, an admitans they were running up deficits and it was one way to starve the government. and then we had the republican party at the height of its power, the presidency, the house, the senate saying, , we weren'toing to have any tax increases even though we're running up these high deficits. we're going to cut taxes. we're going to hemorrhage trillions of dollars in revenue and we are going to go into two wars, we're going to put a $7 trillion prescription drug plan on the financial pile of our debt. and so alan greenspan in the first eks of t bush administration, he said, bush could leave offi but our country would be entirely dt free. what happened in the reverse was he doubled the debt, walked out with eig

mr. mcgovern: i yield the gentleman an additional time. mr. moran: mr. speaker, the point is i understand this train is leaving the station but it's going in the wrong direction. we need to be investing in this country, not taking away the resources that will enable it to grow and for the poor especially those striving to be in the middle class, to achieve the middle class, to education, training and infrastructure investment. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california. mr. dreier: thank you very much, mr. speaker. at this time i yield a minute to my very good friend from ashland, wisconsin, mr. duffy. the speakepro tempore: the gentleman from wisconsin is recognized for one mute. mr. duffy: thank you, mr. speaker. i had a chance to watch this floor debate over the last week or so. to say the least you can say our tempers have flared. there has been a lot of rhetoric on both sides. as we come together today, the proposal that's been negotiated with both sides, with speaker boehner, the president, harry reid. it's a dea

mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, i yield myself 10 seconds. mr. speaker, i hear a lot about the bush tax cuts. if they were so good where are the jobs? i think it's simply wrong to have the middle class in this country bear the burden when the donald trumps are getting tax cuts. i yield one minute to the gentlewoman from texas, ms. jackson lee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from texas is recognized for one minute. ms. jackson lee: i thank the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. speaker, this is a very tough place to put america. not members of congress. we are paid to come here and do our job. but it's a very tough place to put america. and so i have a simple state of facts to present today and listen to my other colleagues, which i will, because it is a tough decision to in actuality support legislation that seems to be driven by thoughts that the only way to get something done is to hold a whole country hostage and a whole congress hostage. on the brink of august 2, we're now throwing something on the floor that is arguably supposed to

mr. mcgovern: i yield to the gentleman from maryland. mr. hoyer: the chance to pass a truly balanced aeement that relies on both spending cuts and revenue. we're not there. but i have said many times during the course of this debate , to govern is to compromise. not to sell out, as some people think on this floor that voting for a compromise is somehow a sellout. we cannot run america on that theory and that is not what democracy is all about. i urge my colleagues to ensure that arica in fact pays its bills. that america -- mr. dreier: i yield my friend additional time if he'd like. mr. hoyer: i'd be glad to yield. mr. dreier: i thank my friend for yielding. i don't know if he hearder. i closed the rule debate by talking about the connecticut compromise which established a bicameral legislature july 16, 1787, in high closing remarks here, it was called the great compromise and my friend is absolutely right. we're at that point today in dealing with an issue not of that magnitude but clearly a very important one and i'm happy to yield my frie

mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, i yield myself 10 seconds. mr. speaker, i hear a lot about the bush tax cuts. if they were so good where are the jobs? i think it's simply wrong to have the middle class in this country bear the burden when the donald trumps are getting tax cuts. i yield one minute to the gentlewoman from texas, ms. jackson lee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from texas is recognized for one minute. ms. jackson lee: i thank the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. speaker, this is a very tough place to put america. not members of congress. we are paid to come here and do our job. but it's a very tough place to put america. and so i have a simple state of facts to present today and listen to my other colleagues, which i will, because it is a tough decision to in actuality support legislation that seems to be driven by thoughts that the only way to get something done is to hold a whole country hostage and a whole congress hostage. on the brink of august 2, we're now throwing something on the floor that is arguably supposed to