Ben Cardin actually said...

the second is that tax reform should be at least as progressive as our current tax code.

I would just urge you, on the first part, to recognize that we have to be disciplined as we deal with the Federal budget.

I think we all would acknowledge that our income tax rates, personal and corporate, put the United States at a disadvantage in global compet...

I would hope that you would agree that we do not want tax reform to increase the size of the Federal deficit.