then I will withhold the unanimous consent request. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Utah has the floor.

I have been listening to this debate for a long time, and I have to admit it has been interesting, but it has been prolonged way beyond where it should have been. My friends on the other side make much about this process, demeaning the…

I, personally, congratulate the distinguished Senator from Ohio. He is one of the most intelligent people in this body. He has had all kinds of experience outside of the Senate. He is a person whom everybody should listen to. He makes a…

this fellow has a very interesting way of trying to get his point of view across. It shouldn't be done here in this august body. Let me just start again. The Senate will soon vote on the conference report for H.R. 1, the Tax Cuts and Jobs…

the Senate will soon vote on the conference report for H.R. 1, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. I have waited a long time to give this final statement in support of tax reform legislation. (Disturbance in the Visitors' Galleries.) The PRESIDING…

No, not just yet. I am going to finish these remarks. I am going to insert in the Record an analysis of winners and losers. The analysis is dated today. It was produced by the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation. Mr. President, I ask…

Mr. Luetkemeyer might have had a good idea, but what we have really seen is an arbitrary FSOC and a Republican- controlled Federal Reserve Board that operates without quorums. This may be a good idea, but until we have a financial…

The Senator is correct. The conference report language for the bill does not change or modify the intended scope of the statement he cites. The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service should interpret the stock attribution…

The House is in the midst of historic tax reform. Now that the House and Senate have almost reached agreement, I would like to take a moment to express a few ideals that I hope will be guiding principles as we complete this process. The…

It made it impossible.

Name me a job that you can sustain a family on working in the tourism industry from May to October.

No, it does not repeal any wilderness study areas.

This bill gives us an opportunity to do that. It truly is a win-win situation. And I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support it.

I think you are doing the right thing here. You are trying to give an area the infrastructure so people can actually visit it.

The Federal Government promised that the monument would take little away and, instead, create a boom of tourism in the community surrounding the monument.

I feel like I am standing up for the little guy. I am standing up for families out in the rural communities who just want to keep their families together.

We genuinely created a situation where both sides had something that they wanted and could claim as a victory.

Some of the misunderstandings that people have regarding this is that the assumption is it repeals any protections, and that is just not true.