Rep. Jackson Lee Struggles to Read Speech While Suggesting Tax Cuts Satanic

‘It is a bill made near Purgatory, made on the way to you know where’

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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee became incoherent momentarily while attempting to liken a Republican tax reform bill to a spawn from Hell. 

After struggling to read her prepared remarks, Jackson Lee suggested the bill itself had Satanic roots.

"This bill will hurt the average working American," Rep. Jackson Lee said Monday night from the House floor. "It is a frightening bill. I would almost like to say, it is a bill made near Purgatory, made on the way to you know where. This is a disgusting attack on hardworking Americans"

Lee appeared to struggle reading passages from her prepared speech, pausing on more than one occasion for several seconds.

"This is a tax cut, uh, that is made, uh, for, uh, the uh basket, if you will, of goodies for the top 1 percent," Jackson Lee stammered. "This isn’t about worrying about working Americans. So let me put into the record what you will lose: You will lose the mortgage interest, uh. Uh, you will, uh, lose, uh, the, uh, the fairness of the child tax credit. Uhm, you will, in fact, uhm, lose, uh, the student loan interest tuition and other education expenses."

Here's a fuller transcript:

That brings me right to the trump tax cuts, the Republican tax cuts. And I spoke earlier during the one-minute to try and correlate between tax cuts and the needs of the American people. By having these major tax cuts that will offer more benefits to corporations, which, by the way, are having their biggest season of profits that we’ve ever had. They are succeeding beyond imagination. They have not only — stock prices going up but the profits that they are going to stock away are going up. Take that as the backdrop as this tax bill having to cut and violate the Medicare trust fund and Medicaid, in order to find the dollars to be able to give the top 1 percent the greatest tax cut and to give corporations a 20 percent tax cut in the United States and a 12 percent tax cut overseas, which in addition to giving them that money on the corporate rates — which is a reasonable thing to discuss — but by the inequity of the lower amount being overseas, you can imagine that jobs are still going to leave and go overseas. 

This is a tax cut that is made for the basket, if you will, of goodies for the top 1 percent. This isn’t about worrying about working Americans. You will lose the mortgage interest. You will lose the fairness of the child tax credit. You will, in fact, lose the student loan interest tuition and other education expenses, personal casualty losses, tax precipitation cost, medical expenses, alimony payments, moving expenses, which will impact Hurricane Harvey in a manner that my constituents in Cashmere Gardens, Northeast Houston, Third Ward, Acres Home, the Heights, places where individuals have been impacted, this moving expense, the elimination of that as a deduction will impact individuals who are trying to restore their lives and employee business expenses. 

This bill will hurt the average working American. It is a frightening bill. I would almost like to say, it is a bill made near Purgatory, made on the way to you know where.”

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