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Peter Roskam is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Illinois's 6th congressional district from 2007 to 2019. During his time in Congress, Roskam served on several key committees, including the Ways and Means Committee, where he focused on tax reform and healthcare issues. He was known for his advocacy of conservative fiscal policies and played a role in the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017.
I thank the gentleman. You know, if you were going to sit around and come up with a movie script of absurdity, you couldn't come up with a script that was this real. In other words, taxpayers out subsidizing first class passenger travel on…
On display in Jerusalem at the Yad Vashem museum, the Holocaust museum, amidst all the pain and suffering and murder and turmoil, are German schoolbooks from the 1930s that display an attitude that was getting pumped into young Germans…
History is incredibly instructive and helpful for us at a time like this. August 13, 1961, Nikita Khrushchev gave an order and that was to move forward and put up the Berlin Wall. At first, it was just barbed wire that morning. And then…
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How do we move forward, and on the job creation piece in particular, you mentioned Colombia, you mentioned Panama, you mentioned South Korea. Are you willing to work with us, for example, to make sure those FTAs get called?
If they had ever met a home visitation program they didn't like, the answer for most was a resounding 'yes.'
Thank you very much for sharing your journey. It is helpful, and it is insightful.
My view is that health care reform should be guided by a simple principle: Fix what is broken and build on what works.
If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan, period.
I think that having a legitimate no-frills policy has to be a part of this conversation.
There's no question. I think we're all like-minded. We want to see recovery as soon as possible.
The use of language characterizing things as saved begins to sound a little bit cagey.
I sensed sort of healthy, honest tension in the exchange and I don't want to over interpret it.
The danger is the implicit authority that goes in an agency that will have a lot of power.
We are going to provide doctors with the incentive to provide the very best care.
One of the things that you spoke about had to do with transparency with the banks. I think there is a lot of wisdom to that.
We could bring more actors that can help solve the problem of climate change, which is what I am most interested in.
I think the price volatility would be something that a well designed cap and invest program would have to address.
You're talking to people that are schlepping back and forth going through all the drama in the airports every day along with the American public. My suggestion is that those types of symbolic things, they really matter.
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