On the recordDecember 20, 2017
I thank my chairman for yielding me time. Mr. Speaker, we have an opportunity to do great things together, and occasionally I come down to this floor and I put my heart into it. I don't just put my heart into it on the floor, I put my heart into it for hours and hours, day after day, in the Rules Committee. I put my heart into it on the Transportation Committee. I put my heart into it on the Budget Committee. Mr. Speaker, do you know what? Sometimes I lose. Sometimes I lose. But what makes this process great is we both come down here and do the very best that we can. Let's not describe what is going on here for the American people as some sort of proofreading error, as some sort of rush job where folks didn't have time to do it right. That does a disservice not just to the Members of Congress, but to the staff that work through these issues with us side by side, day after day, week after week, month after month, and, yes, in the case of this bill, year after year. We have a choice with how we spend our days. I am proud that we spend our days doing fundamental tax reform. It has been far too long. We don't call it once in a generation because it is a rhetorical tool. We call it once in a generation because there are men and women in this Chamber who were not alive the last time that we did it. It is important, and I am glad we are doing it. The Senate has every right to do what the Senate did yesterday.…
