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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.
On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 227, nays 187, not voting 18, as follows: [Roll No. 449]…
I thank Mr. Van Hollen. To listen to the histrionics from the other side here today, you would think that we could run the Pentagon through charitable giving. You would think that if there was just a deduction for charitable giving, we…
If we cannot do the big, then let us proceed with the smaller bilaterals where we actually have had some success.
Could you speak to what could be done in T-TIP or at WTO to otherwise help coax our European counterparts to provide more meaningful opportunities to comment on regulatory proposals so that Americans, American small and medium size…
I want to direct my comments to the other side. Mr. Tiberi, who is indeed my friend and a terrific guy, said that there is no partner at the White House. When we undertook this very significant proposal on tax reform, it wasn't the White…
I thank the gentleman from Michigan. Mr. Speaker, we are here today with this faulty effort for one reason and one reason only: the failure of fundamental tax reform. Now, a good-faith effort was made in terms of drafting the proposal, but…
On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on the question of passage of the…
The point that I make on this is very simple. We started out with a bona fide effort to do tax reform. This is not the way to do tax reform. We need to go back to the drawing table and draft a proposal that the American people will come to…
I am opposed to it in its current form. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Neal moves to recommit the bill H.R. 4718 to the Committee on Ways and Means with instructions to…
The only thing that is missing is Oliver Stone. But there is time for that because there is an election 5 months from now.
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