Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 184, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes.''

It is clear from the testimony that you all have put a great deal of time and consideration into these improvements to our current Tax Code.

We are still committed to comprehensive, full tax reform, as a Committee.

Everyone in America benefits when our children have a strong start in life through quality child care.

Expanding the dependant care assistance program will help more working families participate in and afford quality child care without going broke.

The American people feel too often that Washington is out of touch with economic realities our nation is facing.

This common-sense legislation excludes certain revenue streams from the 85 percent member income test.

The estate tax sits, and a lot of times they have to dissolve the business or the entity.

An enactment of H.R. 1397 is not expected to cost the taxpayers any money.

H.R. 1397, the Seniors Tax Simplification Act, which would save millions of taxpayers money, but not cost the revenue one cent.

The bill has it as one percent of adjusted, but we want to make it revenue neutral.

This bill modernizes excise tax rates for brewers and importers.

This bill, the Asset Act, permits individual taxpayers to opt in to a new system in which death would no longer be a taxable event.

The key is that it gives the individual taxpayer the right to determine his or her destiny.

it will actually have the opposite effect for small businesses.

the proposed rule we are discussing today would more than double the threshold to extend overtime requirements to anyone earning up to $50,440.

CMS is working to regain the hearts and minds of physicians through implementation of MACRA.

If CMS is trying to win back the hearts and minds of physicians, this proposal falls short since it will continue to push physicians out of their solo or small practices.