the Trump administration is simply benefiting from the continuation of the Obama economy.

That is not a middle-class tax cut. That is a tax increase on hundreds of thousands of Marylanders.

I would just point out again, when President Trump and lots of other folks talked about it, they did not have a big asterisk next to the $4,000 pay raise saying it is going to be after the next election.

I have got to figure a lot of families who are out there looking at the overall picture are recognizing that at the end of the day they are going to get the short end of the stick, unless they are a big corporation.

In my State of Maryland, over 350,000 families will actually see a tax increase, including mostly middle-class families.

We passed a tax proposal that is estimated to increase our national debt well over $1 trillion.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

this sounds a lot more like puffery than reality.

There has been great concern on a bipartisan basis that OCO over the years has been used as a slush fund

80 percent of the benefit of increased economic activity from the tax law is going into the pockets of foreigners.

I just find it ironic, Mr. Chairman, that we have got now what is a Government program that encourages the people to move plants and equipment overseas.

for the first 11 months of fiscal year 2018 we are going to expect close to a $1 trillion deficit, specifically $895 billion just in the first 11 months of this fiscal year.

I hope someone will point out to the President of the United States that when I add it up, it comes to $447 billion over those 10 years, which is more than twice as much as he asked for in his infrastructure plan.

By locating more tangible assets abroad, a corporation is able to reduce the amount of foreign income that is categorized as GILTI.

corporate tax receipts have fallen by 30 percent in the aftermath of the passage of the Republican tax bill.

But the House and the Senate both rushed to pass final legislation before the Joint Tax Committee could do a dynamic score.

We have a President that likes to tweet a lot about the most recent economic indicators.

The unusual thing about that tax cut is we usually reserve those stimulus efforts for times when the economy is really in bad shape.