I think the genesis of a lot of this legislation came from Tennessee, and it was introduced by Senator Alexander.
There was a need for that consent decree, and that--the Governor didn't want to have it.
H.R. 3041 would seem to have the effect of discouraging consent decrees against state and local governments and official...
I have no doubt that the proponents of these bills, including Rep. Jim Cooper, my esteemed fellow Tennessee Democrat and...
I am worried that we are hearing a whole lot more about accounting and bureaucracy than we are hearing about accountabil...
But how do I look folks in the eye back home and say there has been accountability?
I hope that these committees will not be part of any sweeping under the rug, any whitewash.
I thank Congressman Graves for joining me in introducing the legislation.
this is a most serious regressive tax.
while car rental excise taxes may seem like an attractive option for shifting the burden of paying for a stadium onto no...
it is a very regressive tax, because it is not adjusted to the person's income.
The act prohibits future discriminatory state and local taxation of the rental of motor vehicles.
the very same people who can't afford tickets to go into the stadium are the same ones that pay more for--for the rental...
Would it be so awful to exacerbate the tax burden on the multi-, multi-, multi-millionaires and billionaires who own the...
And I thank my predecessor in the Judiciary Committee, and in the House, Rick Boucher, a fine gentleman from Virginia.
I appreciate the bipartisan support for H.R. 2469.
I have warned that the number one issue, in my opinion, plaguing transportation in America is vehicular congestion.
I do not think anybody is going to consider that to be a very astute or intelligent thing to do.
