Rich Neal

I think this once again demonstrates that there are opportunities for common ground in our approaches to tax policy.

It is critical that we implement tax policy that helps America's small business grow and prosper.

Small businesses are the engines of job creation in the country, and nearly 60 million Americans work for small business.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just a quick comment based on previous experience in terms of dealing with Section 8s.

Management is a key issue.

The homeowner deduction really does serve a very necessary purpose.

I think still trying to get people into home ownership is a desirable goal.

Once people owned a home they really helped to transform the neighborhood.

I am pleased that you included the auto-IRA bill in the budget that I worked on for many, many years.

You worked for the only President who has balanced the budget four times since the end of World War II.

Our Republican friends are always in favor of balancing the budget when there is a Democratic President.

The auto-IRA proposal, I think, is superbly positioned to help with some of the issues that were raised by some of our friends on the other side.

I am still waiting for a Republican to sign on to my bill.

Tax-exempt municipal bonds are the most important tool in the United States for financing investments in schools, roads, bridges, water, and sewer systems.

Please protect the charitable tax deduction to give children a chance, and families a future.

My colleague, John Lewis, was treated in some of the most difficult moments of his life, he was treated by the only group that would treat him at the time in the aftermath of Selma, and that was a group of Catholic nuns.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My question is going to be directed to any of the panelists.

The best hospitals perhaps in the world are right in Massachusetts. And so, when anybody gets sick I have never heard them make the argument, 'I don't want to be in Massachusetts.'

The total deficit over that 10-year period amounted to $6.1 trillion, a swing of $11.7 trillion from January 2001 and its projections.

In January 2001, CBO estimated that the total budget surplus for 2002 to 2011 would be $5.6 trillion, surplus.

I don't agree with Mr. Gingrich on many fiscal issues, but I think on this one, he is right.

I hope that we are going to find a common path forward on many of these issues.

Many of the most senior Members of this Committee routinely voted to raise the debt ceiling during those years.

We began down this path by enacting tax cuts that cost the government $2.3 trillion.

Instead, after years of reckless spending and tax cuts, the Federal Government ran deficits from 2002 until 2011.