John Garamendi

That is interesting. Perhaps the House of Lords is in our future. I was just thinking, as Mr. Raskin was talking, of an old comic book that used to be popular. It was one of the Donald Duck comic books, and I remember it was Uncle Scrooge…

This bill would seem to further the skewing of wealth to the wealthy.

I thank Mr. Raskin so very much for his remarks. The voice of Maryland is strong and powerful and quite correct. Mr. Raskin spoke of income inequality. The wealthy in America, the top 1 percent, own as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent?

Reclaiming my time, we don't need to guess what they are going to do. The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Ryan, has said very clearly that next year will be step two. They will take on what he calls the social safety net…

Reclaiming my time, oh, absolutely. And I would say, also, that maybe it is an oligarch, and maybe we are creating one of those Russian oligarch societies here in which a few who are well connected to this President are going to do very…

Did I hear Mr. Cicilline correctly that the action taken here on the floor is not dispositive, but has to be modified in the Senate and brought back because they screwed up? Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Rhode Island.

The gentleman's final sentence was ``rushed through.'' There has not been one substantive hearing in either House. There has been a markup hearing, but that is not a substantive hearing. No Democratic amendments have been accepted. Not one…

The gentleman mentioned this one, but I think we need to focus on it. Right now, if you are going to go to college, almost every person is going to have to borrow money. Student debt is over $1.2 trillion. Young men and women who graduate…

I appreciate the work that the gentleman does there trying to protect the American public from this hasty--Mr. Hastings, thank you so very much. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from New York.

My recollection in the 1986 Reagan tax reform, it took 2 years of public hearings all around the country and some 30 hearings in the House Ways and Means Committee, probably a similar number on the Senate side before the bill came to the…

Reclaiming my time, as an esteemed member of the Rules Committee, there is an emergency meeting to push this bill to the floor without any public hearings. Is that correct?

I thank the gentlewoman very much, Representative Jayapal, for her comments. She brought to our attention the inconsistencies that are in this piece of legislation. Everywhere I go and people talk about this, they say: I don't understand…

Mr. Suozzi and I could probably spend a couple of hours going back and forth. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. Jayapal), who comes from the far side of the continent from New York, Washington State.

There is one additional factor--I know this is the case in California and also in New York--and that is both New York and California are net contributors to other States. In our State of California, even with this deduction, far more tax…

I thank Mr. Suozzi for his remarks. I appreciate him bringing to my attention the SALT--the State and local tax. What basically happens is the Republicans are putting salt on the wound and causing an enormous amount of pain for…

I thank you, Madam Leader. As I close, I will just say that this is not the last of this debate. We are going to make sure that the American public knows what is happening to them and what this Republican Congress is doing to the American…

We are going to drive this and make sure the American public knows what is coming down.

Yes. Jeff Denham, Mr. McClintock, and the other Republicans from California included.

I thank Madam Leader for joining us tonight. I remember here on the floor, when the debate occurred over the budget that did pass the House of Representatives a couple of weeks ago, you spoke eloquently on the floor about what this budget…

You said it. I was astounded that, during the first Special Order hour, there were about 12 members of the Republican Party who came down here on some weird conspiracy theory, and I am going: Wait a minute, guys, why don't you talk about…

Madam Leader, if I might, you said SALT. It is like really pouring salt on a wound. But SALT is State and local taxes. So for California, New Jersey, New York, Illinois, and other States that have big populations, they collect this…

If you would, we think there is about $5 billion owed to the State of California for past Presidential declarations.

I believe we just made a major move here in this House to significantly reduce the Federal revenues. It is called tax cuts.

Maybe we should stop calling them urban areas, because the rural part of our region feeds straight into these roads and bridges.

These same challenges, the challenges I have described in this region, are replicated in all our major urban areas across the Nation.