"We need to invest in our young kids in early education through their primary grades onto university and Ph.D.s."
"We can't sustain a $34 trillion debt, and we have to work on bringing that down."
"It ballooned the deficit by $1.5 trillion, and the bill never paid for itself."
"Ninety-five percent of the people who work in my area, ninety-five percent, work for a small business."
"the estate tax is a godsend to businesses like ours in upstate New York."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Dr. Califf, welcome. Thank you for your good work."
"56 percent of the tax cuts enriched shareholders, the remaining 44 percent lined the pockets of many executives, 0 percent went to workers. I repeat, zero."
"There are 20 years of data showing trickle-down economics doesn't work."
"Republicans have now wasted the last 16 months on chaos, conspiracies, and, of course, talk of more tax cuts."
"We knew that this plan would disproportionately benefit the wealthy and the well-connected."
"We would be doing so at the expense of policies that would really help working families."
"the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act are so important."
"In the words of Joe Biden, 'Grow the economy because that hurts nobody.'"
"Republicans complain about government spending when there is a Democrat sitting in the White House."
"They lump all taxpayers together into one undifferentiated group, and then claim that 'an average taxpayer' receives a significant benefit from TCJA."
"In the last three decades our Republican colleagues have skyrocketed the deficit with trillions of dollars in tax cuts."
"It didn't pay for itself, it didn't increase revenue, and it certainly did not increase wages."
"Democrats took a different path, and now our economy is the strongest in the world."
