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Howard Griffith
@howardgriffith· Republican · VA· Jun 19, 2018

Those 12 folks who were working at your facility in Bristol, Virginia, they don't think that this tax cuts and jobs bill was just crumbs for them, do they?

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Howard Griffith
@howardgriffith· Republican · VA· Jun 19, 2018

That tells me the economy is percolating and things are good.

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Frank Pallone
@frankpallone· Democratic · NJ· Jun 19, 2018

You don't create a legacy, Mr. President, by giving power to people who already have power. You do it by lifting up people that are suffering, by lifting up people that are downtrodden.

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Frank Pallone
@frankpallone· Democratic · NJ· Jun 19, 2018

He has the power to fix this, and our Republican colleagues should be standing up and making that declaration.

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Frank Pallone
@frankpallone· Democratic · NJ· Jun 19, 2018

But we are here talking about a tax bill that gives power to the powerful when we really should be talking in every committee and every Member should be talking about this tragedy that is unfolding at our southern border.

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Frank Pallone
@frankpallone· Democratic · NJ· Jun 19, 2018

So Americans understand that the GOP tax scam bill is only rewarding the wealthiest among us while drowning our children's future in a sea of debt.

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Frank Pallone
@frankpallone· Democratic · NJ· Jun 19, 2018

The GOP tax scam remains enormously unpopular with the American people.

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Frank Pallone
@frankpallone· Democratic · NJ· Jun 19, 2018

The Republican tax law is a scam that benefits the wealthy and the corporate interests.

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Frank Pallone
@frankpallone· Democratic · NJ· Jun 19, 2018

This hearing is nothing more than a blatant attempt by the Republican majority to tout its unpopular tax scam in the hopes that middle-class Americans, who are not seeing any substantial benefits from the new law, might just reconsider…

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Frank Pallone
@frankpallone· Democratic · NJ· Jun 19, 2018

Republicans are obviously focusing this hearing around businesses because it is businesses and their wealthy owners who reap the main benefits of the GOP tax scam.

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Jerry McNerney
@jerrymcnerney· Democratic · CA· Jun 19, 2018

The unpopular Republican tax bill that greatly reduces corporate taxes and reduces tax rates for the wealthiest people is a good deal.

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Jerry McNerney
@jerrymcnerney· Democratic · CA· Jun 19, 2018

This is clearly a political hearing. It is not a policy hearing at all.

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Bob Menendez
@bobmenendez· Democratic · NJ· Jun 19, 2018

Mr. President, today I rise in condemnation of the Trump administration's heartless, cruel, and inhumane policy of separating children from their parents when they seek asylum at our southern border. I do so as the son of refugees who fled…

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Ann Wagner
@annwagner· Republican · MO· Jun 19, 2018

The U.S. faces two threats in Northeast Asia--North Korea and China.

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Ann Wagner
@annwagner· Republican · MO· Jun 19, 2018

China is North Korea's real long-term threat, not the United States.

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Raja Krishnamoorthi
@rajakrishnamoorthi· Democratic · IL· Jun 19, 2018

Mr. Speaker, this past weekend, my family and I spent a wonderful Sunday celebrating Father's Day, just like millions of other families across our country. During our time together, I couldn't help thinking about the thousands of children…

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Ann Wagner
@annwagner· Republican · MO· Jun 19, 2018

America's intervention in Korea in 1950 was a strategic success in preventing an important buffer region from becoming a zone of communist influence.

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