Douglas L. Peterson: “We need to reform the U.S. tax system, including lowering the corporate tax rate, to level the playing field.”

I think the bewitching hour has arrived. We have had numerous speeches on this floor over my tenure of 4 years of everyone saying, ``I'm for national defense, I'm for national defense, and I stand squarely behind the military of our…

Permanence creates certainty. Certainty reduces risk.

We need a permanent, comprehensive fix that will promote investment, innovation and growth in the U.S.

We do have some agreement here, bipartisan agreement, which is great, because if we can get this economy moving, it is going to be so much better for the people, those hard-working American families.