If Congress is going to take a serious look at reforming the tax code, we certainly should look at ways it can be simplified.
Jim Risch
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Jim Risch is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Idaho since 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Risch previously held the position of lieutenant governor of Idaho from 2006 to 2009 and served in the Idaho State Senate from 2002 to 2006. Throughout his career, he has focused on issues such as government accountability and land management, reflecting the interests of his constituents in Idaho.
this is not a partisan issue. This is a bipartisan issue, and Senator Shaheen and I will be working on that together
I understand that the memo went out to all the Democrats that they are supposed to raise health care.
I saw confusion. I saw a real troubling view from their point of view during the last 8 years, and it has changed markedly since those two events that nobody ever talks about.
I don't think there's any American who would disagree with the fact that we need to drill down to this, know what happened, get it out in front of the American people, and do what we can to stop it.
We should have substantially more work on it than doing it in the middle of the night like happened with Obamacare or we are going to wind up with the same mess.
So again, so the American people can understand this, that report by the New York Times was not true.
Those of us that work in the intelligence community, it didn't come as a surprise.
I think you have cleared up substantially your direct testimony that you have never been pressured by anyone, including the President of the United States, to do something illegal, immoral, or anything else.
I think all three of these nominees we have in front of us are highly qualified people, and I think the President should be commended for his choices in these areas.





