JOHN LINDER: “The adoption of the rule will put in place limiting language that will prevent any expansion of those benefits.”

I do share the Ranking Member's frustration that we are talking about it again, rather than doing something about it.

Businesses do not pay taxes, they collect taxes from other entities and pass them along. I think we should be honest about that.

I oppose this legislation. Since the Democrats' 2009 stimulus law, 3.3 million jobs have been eliminated, not the 3.7 million jobs they forecast it would create. Unemployment has risen to 10 percent, not the 8 percent peak Democrats…

I met Charlie Norwood over 30 years ago. We were both young dentists in Georgia. He was the president of the Georgia Dental Association, and I was a young, newly elected dentist in the Georgia legislature. And his enthusiasm blew me away…