Bob Schaffer: “Most of all, Mr. Speaker, America's soul is found in its rural communities.”

if I could amplify that, I want to be frank and open and honest with respect to the political realities of this. Republicans and conservatives around the country cannot afford to stand by and abandon the field to our friends on the left on…

That is right. And the benefit in our bill, let me just start with the dollar amounts and some of the specifics, it is a $250 benefit to every individual taxpayer in the country. Well, $250 is a certain dollar amount that every American is…

Yes, sure, the gentleman has described it accurately. Let us just use, for example, the base benefit amount that exists in this proposal, which is $250. That would be the tax benefit to an American taxpayer.

You can't have all of this change that has been developed in the states or all of the reluctance to change that has been developed in other states and say that this is somehow one-size-fits-all.