Priorities
Jun 22nd, 2006 at 10:24 am by Susie
Rep. Louise Slaughter today:
The House Republican leadership scurried up to the Rules Committee hearing room for an EMERGENCY meeting they convened with 5 minutes notice. Literally.
Wonder where the fire was? Well the topic Republicans chose for EMERGENCY consideration … H.R. 5638, the Republican Estate Tax Relief bill, designed to further reduce the estate-tax after the year 2011.
Yes, estate-tax reduction, which would benefit less than 1% of the population, was more important to this Republican Leadership than passing a minimum wage increase, extending the voting rights act, or having a real, substantive debate on the war in Iraq.
It WAS a life anf death tax emergency for their core constituency.
funny,t hey also found time to vote themselves a pay raise. again.
Do we have a breakdown on who voted for and against the congressional payraise? I hope there was a majority of Dems who voted against it.
I still like seeingtheforest.com’s remark on the estate tax… something like “why should the children of multi-millionares be the only people in America who’s income is not taxed?”