Ron Estes

I will remember his kind heart and how he always greeted anyone who entered our office with a cheerful smile.

It is great for us in this hearing today to be able to talk about the committee's continuing effort to build a society and a culture that values life.

It is really unfathomable that anyone in the country would stand up and carry the flag of terror and hate openly onto a college campus.

Antisemitic activity has been a growing problem as foreign bad actors have been funneling money onto our non-profit colleges and universities.

The antisemitic activities that have occurred on college campuses are absolutely appalling.

A lot of those folks are already experiencing cuts, thanks to the sky-high inflation that is 19.9 percent since January 2021.

Social Security's trust fund will be unable to pay full retirement benefits starting in 2033.

It's always great to get out of the D.C. Beltway and into diverse communities across our great nation to hear directly from Americans who are helped or harmed by the policies that we write or vote on.

Wages are down 3.9 percent in terms of net wages since the President's come into office.

Since President Biden's been in office, the cost of inflation on a monthly basis has gone up over 19 percent.

I take offense at the term 'junk fees' being used in that manner.

It is really unfortunate, the amount of misinformation that is out there that is trying to mislead the American family and American families and the people across America about the effects of the TCJA.

The JCT analysis confirms that Pillar 1, as currently negotiated by the Biden administration, does not accomplish the original goals set out when we began this exercise in 2018.

As the House Ways and Means Tax Subcommittee, we should be firm in our commitment to putting the United States first, maintaining our tax sovereignty, and not giving in to global demand.

It is ridiculous that our current administration is willing to allow other countries to steal the intellectual property of American businesses.

We have already collected a trillion dollars more than what was projected

We are now spending $85,000 each second that is being increased to the national debt. It is not sustainable

The CBO has fallen short in recent years on some of its work, and I hope that after today's conversation, you feel emboldened to actually address some of the needed changes

It is great that we have so many people from so many different districts talking about issues that are important to them and seeing the wide impact across the country. Mr. Speaker, I recognize for 2 minutes the gentleman from Texas (Mr…

I thank the gentleman for speaking about some of the important impacts on businesses within his district.

I thank the gentleman. It is so important that the gentleman has taken such an active interest. I now recognize for 2 minutes the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Strong), a friend of mine, and a good guy.

I thank Mr. Kustoff. It is so important, as he highlighted, to have innovation and to support that so that we can have good economic growth. That is a key thing that has always helped America over the long term. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the…

I am glad Mrs. Miller highlighted the impact on small businesses because that is one of the things that sometimes we think about, business provisions that affect large businesses, but small businesses are greatly affected as well by some…

Mr. Hern highlighted that it is so important for us to have a strong America. It means we need to have a strong economy and good-paying jobs for workers, which means we need to have these provisions that make things work and make the…