Mike Thompson

I think we have a responsibility, and not to preserve millions of dollars in tax cuts for billionaires and the top one percent.

But the family farm would be protected, if you keep farming.

This would be pretty straightforward. It would say that you--if your father-in-law passes away and leaves you and your wife the farm, as long as you continue to farm it, you would be exempt from paying any taxes, any estate taxes.

The death tax is an immoral tax. And it is an attack on the American Dream.

This tax is especially destructive to women and minority-owned businesses, the fastest-growing sector of our economy today.

If total repeal of the estate tax isn't politically feasible, are you supportive of finding a way to protect the capital assets of family farmers and ranchers so their family farms can continue?

The gentleman is correct. That is how the legislative process works. You don't just punt something over to the other Chamber and then say, ``We have done our job''; because you haven't done your job until the President, in the case of…

I thank the gentleman, and my friend, for yielding. Mr. Speaker, Members, I came down to the floor this afternoon to join my Blue Dog colleagues in calling for all of us in Congress to come together and do the work that we have been asked…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today as the Democratic lead on the conservation easement bill and to very regrettably say that I rise in opposition to this bill that I think so highly of. I don't disagree with the…

If you add that to what our Republican colleagues did in the Ways and Means Committee this morning when they passed $225 billion of unpaid-for tax expenditures, that means that just today the Republican side of this House spent $320…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, it is said that insanity is doing something over and over again and expecting a different result. Well, here we go again, the 56th bill to repeal or undermine the Affordable Care Act. We all…

it is those consumers, largely in the middle class, who are the job creators in this country.

I just can't emphasize enough how this is something that we just can't acquiesce on.

It is extremely important for, not only California, but a number of the rice States.

I thank our California delegation leader for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise tonight to recognize two men that I have had the high honor and the great privilege to serve with for their last 16 years in Congress: George Miller and Henry…

I thank the gentleman for yielding and for all the good work you did on the committee as the ranking member. I also want to thank Chairman Rogers for the good work that he did as the chairman. Working together, he was very accommodating…

In response to this need, this bill requires the Director of National Intelligence to provide an assessment of the status of threat information sharing between the intelligence community and diplomatic security personnel and to propose…

This week the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that the agency is reopening the comment period for an additional 30 days for the public comment period on their proposal to list the northern long-eared bat as endangered. This…

I join with my colleague and friend on the other side of the aisle in support of this measure. Specialist Keith Grace, Jr. was a hero. All of us thank his family for his service and his sacrifice, and I ask that everyone vote in favor of…

I thank the gentleman for the nice remarks with regard to Mr. Philmore Graham, for whom we are naming the post office in Vallejo. I want to preface my remarks by saying that my district just suffered a terrible earthquake, and it was…

I join with my friend in asking everyone to support this measure to name this post office after Sergeant Shawn T. Hannon and Master Sergeant Jeffrey J. Rieck, and I align myself with all of the comments that my friend and colleague has…

I think right would be all of us sitting down and figuring out what sort of tweaks we needed to make to make the system work.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, the tax provisions that are being considered today include the much-needed Conservation Easement Incentive Act, a bill I introduced with my friend from Pennsylvania (Mr. Gerlach). As a…

I think we are all at the least disappointed that Ms. Lerner took the Fifth.

I think most of us in previous hearings have expressed that.