Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Mr. Secretary, for your testimony and, more importantly, your work on these many strategies to try to h...
Thank you very much again for your testimony. I join you in considering this as something we should be working on day and night until we can...
I did not know if that was a piece you were working on.
the fierce urgency of now
I appreciate that, that separate fund.
we ought to fix it looking forward as well into the future.
Where is the sense of urgency to pursue it?
I would only say, respectfully, that to characterize this as being in the early stages--when you look at all that has been done, we have had...
We might generate $6 billion/$8 billion worth of projects, and the chairman and colleagues on both sides said, well, it is worth a try.
Now, I would like to see us, particularly by closing some of the loopholes in the system, get lower than that.
I would like to see a sense of urgency, particularly because this is so directly related to job creation, as we saw the last time it was don...
I think it would be a big shot in the arm again to pass tax reform.
We all know you cannot have big league economic growth with little league transportation systems.
this is about fundamental fairness, the idea that--it is exactly as you say.
We have gone back to the drawing board, and Senator Hoeven and I, in particular, have come up with a new concept.
I absolutely take your point about this is for families being current.
when I take out the $1 trillion worth of tax expenditures, they seem to go to a small number of these special interests.
would it not make for a simpler system to, in effect, root those out and ensure fairness for everybody.
