It's now my real pleasure to yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen), the ranking member of the Budget Committee.

I now yield 5 minutes to a veteran of negotiations on taxes and tax reform, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Rangel). (Mr. RANGEL asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

I now yield 4 minutes to another distinguished member of our committee, Mr. Neal of Massachusetts. (Mr. NEAL asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

I yield myself 30 seconds. The majority leader continues to use a tool of propaganda, grabbing small business as his mantra. I want to repeat a fact given to us by Joint Tax: under our bill, 97 percent of small businesses would keep all of…

Yesterday, Republicans voted to make tax cuts for millionaires their priority over giving 114 million middle class Americans certainty. Today, they are doubling down on that agenda. The so-called principles laid out in this bill would rig…

I yield myself 30 seconds. The gentleman from Texas talks about loopholes. Is the mortgage interest deduction a loophole? Is the charitable contribution deduction a loophole? State and local taxes a loophole? Municipal bonds a loophole…

I yield an additional 2 minutes to the gentleman. Mr. McDERMOTT. These two were not cut from the same piece of cloth. Tip O'Neill was a working class Irishman. He was passionate about fairness, knew how to get things done, and, well, he…

I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Thompson), a distinguished member of our committee.

I yield myself 15 seconds. The Republican bill indeed picks winners and losers. The winners are the very wealthy, and the losers are the middle class Americans of this country. I now, with pleasure, yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from…

There is a choice to be made here, and it isn't what the chairman has put forth for one second. Everyone in this body agrees that we should extend the middle class tax cut. The Senate passed a bill that does just that. The President is…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 170, nays 257, not voting 3, as follows: [Roll No. 543] YEAS--170 Ackerman Andrews Baca Baldwin Barber Bass…

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 256, noes 171, not voting 3, as follows: [Roll No. 545] AYES--256…