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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.
Mr. Speaker, I'm pleased to announce that over 100 colleagues have joined together on both sides of the aisle to send a letter to President Obama commending his trip to Israel and also asking him to use it as an opportunity to continue to…
I thank the gentleman for yielding. Look, we were admonished a minute ago in the well of the House about the shame of things, and I think we can all accept admonition that we, as a Congress, need to do better. But part of doing better…
So when these things are manipulated--and I know that is a characterization, but I will characterize it as a manipulation--when they are manipulated, they are manipulated for benefit of one at the demise of another hospital or the demise…
It is a selective admission process. And their argument is, look, this shows that the system isn't being abused and so forth.
Mr. Speaker, as the Representative of the Sixth District of Illinois and the son of a Korean war veteran, I'm honored to serve over 34,000 veterans. We have a deep commitment, as we know, to support those who've risked their lives to…
popularity notwithstanding, there is a real challenge there in terms of the reality.
It is almost as if we have asked, you know, how much does your spouse weigh or something.
That is unsustainable, and that, I think, is one of the factors that is driving part of our challenge today.
My comments were designed to illustrate the very difficult trade-offs. There is no party that has a monopoly on empathy or sympathy here with respect to pursuing tax reform.
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