I am prepared to close, but I would like to inquire on how much time is remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Arizona has 5 minutes remaining.

Oh, no. Who else has been working for a decade now to save it? Remember, in 2033, about halfway through the year, the trust fund is gone. Is that a Republican or a Democratic problem? I would say it is a morality problem. We will be…

If we are all blessed, I won't use it all. Mr. Speaker, have you ever had a moment where the first words in your head are: I am damned if I do and damned if I don't, but is there a chance? For a decade, I have been coming behind this very…

I love public policy by storytelling, but this being the Joint Economic Committee, let's actually go back to math. Madam Chair, I would say to Mr. Beyer that I want to make sure I am communicating right, but at least we are down to…

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May I inquire as to the time remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Arizona has 9 minutes remaining. The gentleman from Virginia has 13\1/2\ minutes remaining.

First, is there a chance to get the amount of time that we are splitting so we have a sense of the run time here? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman has 36\1/2\ minutes.

My best guess is I will use about 6 or 7 minutes of it. Mr. Speaker, do you remember the hair on fire comments that people said that mathematically had no basis? They are not actually in the budget documents. Let's understand the size of…

To the chairman and the minority, I first want to apologize to everyone. I have one of my crappy lung infections, so at some point, I am going to start coughing and doing an inhaler. Just ignore me. Somehow, I thought that would be…

Let me have just a couple of moments of joy here. A reconciliation budget that only touches individuals and passthrough businesses, so there are no shareholders who are getting-- that is actually already locked in. That is one of the…

Apparently, the Democratic position is the $2,000 you get per child, which was the doubling of the child tax credit in 2017, should go away and go back to the $1,000? Wow. I think that is what I just heard. Those of us who have adopted…

I have to figure out, do I sit here and just spend my time correcting things that are mathematically not true or not in the design of what is actually here or just over and over say how much I like working with Mr. Beyer because one day he…

May I inquire as to how much time remains. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Arizona has 16\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentleman from Virginia has 18 minutes remaining.

I actually made a board for what the gentleman's point was, showing, within this reconciliation budget document, how much additional tax cuts are there for C corporations. There is your board. I am being a little sarcastic, but that is…

The average family would save $2,853. That is your crumbs. I would argue, for the average family that has been crushed by the previous 3 or 4 years in inflation, if you don't make 27 percent more money in my district, you are poorer today…

I would inquire once again on how much time is remaining. The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Simpson). The gentleman from Arizona has 7\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentleman from Virginia has 4\1/2\ minutes remaining.