Why should ordinary people pay for a government decision that makes their television sets obsolete?

Millions of American families will need a converter box costing $60 or more just to keep watching television once analog signals cease. House Republicans, to protect their tax cuts, would force millions of Americans to reach into their wallets and pay a television tax of $20 to $60 per TV set. Why should ordinary people pay for a government decision that makes their television sets obsolete?

Consumers should not have to fill out a voucher and give personal information to the federal government simply to watch TV. There will be no television tax under the Democratic substitute (bill).

The series was arguably the most critically acclaimed new television show of the year, a fact which made the decision not to renew it all the more difficult.

To go beyond this is to harass innocent law-abiding citizens and to hurt people who love to go to gun shows,

Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on.