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Rich Neal

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Richard Edmund Neal is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 1st congressional district since January 3, 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Neal has focused on issues such as healthcare, education, and economic development throughout his tenure. He has been an advocate for Social Security and has expressed concerns about privatization efforts by Republicans. Neal has also been vocal about the impacts of trade policies on American families, particularly criticizing the effects of the Trump administration's trade war.

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Feb 10, 2016

the right thing to do is to reform our Tax Code, because the problem in our Tax Code is we have these huge inefficiencies, loopholes, deductions, and rates that are statutory rates that are too high.

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Feb 10, 2016

But if that can't happen, I strongly urge that you look at doing something on inversions, because I don't think anyone a year from now is going to look back and say they didn't do anything, while more companies moved overseas.

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Feb 10, 2016

We have introduced legislation, the Democrats in this House as well as the Senate, to address inversions.

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Feb 10, 2016

So why not act now on this inversion legislation? Why not?

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Feb 10, 2016

one of the great ironies of my time in Congress is that the budget decisions that were made well before Barack Obama was President made by our friends on the other side, who really set the fire upon Barack Obama's inauguration, and they…

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Feb 10, 2016

I do not think we need to make America great again, as we already are the greatest nation on earth.

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Feb 10, 2016

So the only thing sent to the so-called death panels were the Republican lies about the health care law, and how it would hurt our economy.

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Feb 10, 2016

If we can't deal with the whole Tax Code, I don't think that we can justify--I can't; I hope this Committee can't justify--doing nothing while another year of inversions goes on.

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Feb 10, 2016

But you just sit on your hands while companies take advantage of loopholes.

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Feb 10, 2016

We shouldn't let people who cheat get off the hook, because that undermines confidence in the tax system.

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Feb 9, 2016

The mismanagement, the misconduct in the Great Plains area needs to be dealt with.

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Feb 9, 2016

It shows the bureaucratic absurdity of the situation we have going on in South Dakota.

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