"The overall goal of Pillar Two is to ensure that all companies are paying a minimum rate of 15 percent everywhere they operate."
"So, it would be credits that would incentivize certain companies to possibly stay there and do business and pick and choose winners and losers for in-country competition, favoring one competitor over ..."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this important meeting."
"It makes no sense to me that non-refundable tax credits are treated worse than refundable tax credits in the OECD Pillar Two rules."
"The OECD's whack-a-mole approach to eliminate tax competition is ill considered."
"Mr. HERN. So then it is a yes, you have given it to JCT then."
"Do we honestly believe, based on our relationship right now with China, that they are going to play by the rules?"
"Do you see this creating--I think you have alluded to this--creating a sort of a whole new government free-for-all with added complexities and burdens that go along with that?"
"if it is a bad policy, it is a bad policy next year, it is a bad policy two years later, it is just a bad policy."
"one of the keys to addressing the future of this great planet and the issues that we address here from a business perspective is changing how we create our energy sources."
"I see climate change as one of our most significant threats."
"The IPCC also determined since 1900 there's been no trend in the amount of landfall events in the United States."
"There's no consensus on the role of human activity on changes of Atlantic hurricane activity."
"Let me be clear, the objective of this hearing, and any future legislation related to wildfires, is not for the Federal government to make decisions for people."
"There is no doubt this is a crisis."
"It is time that Congress rediscovers the presumption of liberty, that our first recourse is to defend the unenumerated rights of private actors, not to expand our few and defined powers to regulate an..."
"Antitrust should not be involved with associations. It should be involved with the PGA. It should not be involved with the NCAA."
"Should we be involved in the war in Yemen? Nobody in Congress ever voted to go to war in Yemen, and why the hell are we involved in that war?"
