Peter Roskam: “We all wanted to prevent taxes from going up on middle-class workers.”

Briefly, the Roskam amendment does the following: It recognizes that my constituency, and I think a lot of others, want the benefits of living near a large international airport but not as much of the burden. Here is the backstory about…

I strongly support President Trump's request for TPA renewal.

I represent suburban Chicago, and we have a lot of small manufacturers.

What we did with it is we doubled it so that the family tax credit is now doubled. So, you know, when folks say, ``Well, I don't like this tax plan,'' really? You don't like doubling the child tax credit? So there was very much an…