the statutory corporate income tax rate is critical to the United States' competitiveness in the global market.

I appreciate how the Treasury Department and bipartisan tax leaders in Congress have consistently spoken with one voice.

We have an ongoing debate here in Congress over our tax extenders, as we have come to call them.

Before the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, we shared a common concern for the many threats to the U.S. corporate tax base.

I challenge anyone to reasonably argue that we should return to the pre-TCJA international tax landscape.

It blows my mind that Democrats seem to think that all they have to do is dump a whole lot of money into the same system that's failed us.

I think that this is really the last chance that we have for something approaching free or freer and fairer elections in Nicaragua.

Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction.

this, in my opinion, is really our chance--our last chance because a consolidated dictatorship... is extremely difficult to break down and rebuild a democracy out of that.

I think most of us are aware of the remittance issues you indicated, the huge part of the GDP that makes up those countries.

The United States has an enduring interest in a prosperous and stable Western Hemisphere, and democratic institutions are the best guarantors of prosperity and stability.

This is an issue that needs immediate clarity.

I want to encourage you to be very restrictive in terms of the application of this prohibition and give the maximum flexibility to States and local communities as they administer these funds.

I believe Section 602(c)(2)(A) is unnecessary and harmful to states and territories, and have introduced S. 743, the State Fiscal Flexibility Act, to eliminate the problematic and legally questionable provision.

the last thing we should do is put States in a predicament where they could lose the funding that was authorized by Congress to help them just because they want to manage their fiscal policy in a way that might include some reduction of…

The U.S. led a successful effort to build a coalition of like-minded countries within the OAS to invoke the RIO Treaty.

We have watched the country suffer from democratic backsliding.

I think next time it may be a little more stringent.