I would encourage you to share this report with the chairman of the subcommittee that provides appropriations for the Department of Justice.

I find it unfathomable that anyone could ever have thought this would turn out any differently...

I would love for you to take a look at the legislation and come back with some thoughts on how we might have some success in impacting long-term poverty and unemployment in those distressed communities.

It seems like our focus on workforce investment is going to be a very important part of how to navigate the future challenges that will displace millions of workers in a way that we have not seen in the past.

I repeatedly implored President Obama to engage with Congress on tax reform, but to no avail.

I do want to associate myself with Senator Isakson's comments about the importance of 45J, the Nuclear Production Tax Credits.

The direction we are heading in is that the person who is at the lowest end of the economic ladder really would have no tax liability in your tax reform package.

The only real comment that was glossed over that I thought was really important was when you answered Senator Casey from Pennsylvania.

Folks at home are a lot smarter than we give them credit for being, but we simply do not talk to them.

I have not been alone. There has been a bipartisan recognition--one that I think is growing more by the day--that our current tax system does not work.

One of the demands we have heard is that Republicans abandon the use of budget reconciliation for tax reform. This, in my view, is an odd demand.

My final point relates to the folks whom I care most about, folks back in South Carolina and around the country who are like my mother was, a hardworking single mom who struggled to make her ends meet, worked 16 hours a day, and needed…

Those regulations, the reporting regulations being imposed on those property and casualty companies that have international exposure, doing international work--they are not trying to escape taxation.

If we are looking for a way to have a conversation with middle America about getting a raise at work, the corporate tax rate is one of the fastest ways for us to get to that higher income for the folks whom we care about.

And then with regulatory reform, we should have a robust economic activity that leads to economic growth, perhaps the 2.9 percent over 10 years.

For 6 years now, I have been beating the drum on tax reform.

I share the administration's concerns about our debt, which ballooned by nearly doubling under the previous administration.

I also share the overall goal in the budget to reduce deficits without raising taxes, keeping in mind that our Nation's debt nearly doubled during the previous administration.