If you lower marginal rates, you change incentives. You increase the incentives to work, to save, to invest.
We appreciate you and the ranking member having this hearing and a number of hearings on the broad issue of tax reform.
I think we have all agreed that we would like for tax reform to provide tax relief for working-class and middle-income families.
The lower we get that to zero, the better job we are doing of ensuring that each recipient is getting the money that you intended them to ha...
So we have, I think, an enduring obligation to make sure that every program measures up to the expectations of taxpayers.
We have got to make sure that we are holding them accountable.
I want to start with the value of the SNAP program in a State like Pennsylvania, a big, diverse State with a lot of economic challenges.
As Americans, we can all agree, we have made a moral covenant with the men and women that served in our Armed Forces.
The gravity of that covenant cannot be understated; it is a core responsibility that we owe our veterans.
Unfortunately and regrettably, a number of unscrupulous actors are increasingly exploiting this assistance program.
We applaud Congressman Cartwright for spearheading this initiative.
The American Legion supports this draft bill as written.
We cannot treat debt collection by looking at veterans as ones and zeroes on a line item.
I do not see a huge amount of that going forward.
Now is the time for this Congress to come together.
I remain unalterably opposed to any attempt to do what they tried to do in those bills.
I get calls and letters pretty much every day from Ohioans who are struggling to afford their medicines and their premiums.
I think that is a waste of money.
