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…

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

Madam Leader, you raised a very important point early on here about the way in which--I just heard you ask to reach out to Republicans to sit down and talk about how to structure a decent tax reform, not just a tax cut for the wealthy. My…

I came here to talk about tax policy, and I will; however, having listened for the last 60 minutes to the most remarkable admission that Russia is meddling in America in many, many ways, even an admission that Russia somehow wants to…

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…

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

You were laying out, Madam Leader, our Republican colleagues from California who seem to ignore or want to not even think about the State and local tax deduction, and also the mortgage interest deduction. Trying to find a house in…

You laid it out. You made it very, very clear that it would lead to a tax bill that would be harmful. We had some ideas then what it would be, but we had no idea that it would be such a horrendous problem for the American economy and…

What you did standing here warning us, I wish you were wrong, but you are not. You are absolutely correct. Now we are seeing it play out here in secret without public hearings. We are going to talk about this, and I hope the American…

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

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

Well, exactly so. This proposal that is going to be before the House very soon will simply make this inequality between the States even worse. Now, in Texas, this horrible problem down here in Houston, terrible-- similarly, with…