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The people who care are firefighters and nurses and teachers because they pay taxes with every single paycheck.

Consistently our colleagues on the other side of the aisle are writing tax legislation that gives billionaires a free pass.

What Republicans don't tell the billionaires... is that billionaires often don't report income close to $400,000.00 because they live off their borrowings.

Affluent people should be able to put significant money into IRAs and so forth, but it reaches a point at which there is not a public purpose in subsidizing increased, massive increase in wealth for the very wealthiest people in America.

Why does it make sense that we are providing such a massive protection for those levels? Those aren't basic retirement levels. That's just a way to escape income taxes for very wealthy Americans.

I'm glad I'm not misleading Oregonians, and when I ask people--I'll often ask Questions in my town hall on things like would you all like prefer to see it invested in the stock fund, and the risk of what having Social Security wiped out by…

It would make a very big difference to me in how much should be taxed on the dollar of income, whether it was the first dollar of income of an individual, or their billionth dollar of income.

I welcome the bipartisan commitment not to cut Social Security, but it's not rock solid.

What Republicans don't tell the billionaires... is that billionaires often don't report income close to $400,000.00 because they live off their borrowings.

Consistently our colleagues on the other side of the aisle are writing tax legislation that gives billionaires a free pass.

The people who care are firefighters and nurses and teachers because they pay taxes with every single paycheck.

I want to figure out a way to save our taxpayer dollars.

I am appreciative of that, that I think you all recognize that we are wasting taxpayer dollars left and right.

I think, as a new Member of Congress, recognizing the work that goes into holding our real estate portfolio, when we often think that that is a private-sector issue and knowing that we have hundreds of millions of square feet that are…

Last, our effort to promote transparency and accountability should never be subject to politics or partisanship.

We all agree that keeping America at the forefront of innovation and progress requires transparency in our academic and research ecosystems.

Again, I want to thank the witnesses for their testimonies in today's hearing.

It's also critical to strengthen the transparency about occupant risk and also build cooperation and collaboration among companies and regulators.