Thank you for conducting this hearing. Thank you for your leadership on this legislation.
It has to be fair, which means middle-income taxpayers should not pay any more of the cost of our government percentage-...
The major concern we heard today is, will middle-income families pay more? That is something which I said I would not su...
Tax reform, in order to be successful, must have certain conditions met. One is an open process, transparency.
We have to raise the revenue that we say we are going to raise so we do not add to the deficit.
I believe that the only way we can get to strong bipartisan tax reform is by having a public and transparent tax reform ...
There is no other way to get competitive marginal business tax rates in this country without bringing different revenues...
I want to give the administration maximum flexibility, but where Congress has said that this area... it seems to me that...
Again, Secretary Sullivan, thank you so much for your willingness to take on these responsibilities.
I want to talk about an area that has gotten a lot of attention in this committee, and that is special envoys.
On the other hand, I would like to know what your priorities are.
If we are going to try to work together on this... there are areas that I want to have special attention where I do not ...
We are a coequal branch of government. We expect the State Department to implement what Congress has done.
Tonight, there was a press report that the Secretary of State is considering the elimination of the special coordinator ...
The functions of both the Bureau of Consular Affairs (CA) and the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) ar...
I am pleased that Secretary Tillerson opposes this shift and believes this work is essential to the Department's mission...
This is an extremely important hearing, the review of the State Department reauthorization bill for fiscal year 2018, as...
These are not confirmed positions, and, therefore, they gain a lot of power at times, where a confirmed person should ha...
