This puts us in a much stronger position when you have an authorization.
This bill is important for many reasons, and I appreciate each of the witnesses' testimony as to various parts of it.
I just would point out Senator Mathias started the efforts, the great Republican Senator from Maryland; Senator Sarbanes continued that effo...
Having authorization puts it in a much stronger position.
I believe that the only way we can get to strong bipartisan tax reform is by having a public and transparent tax reform process.
There is no other way to get competitive marginal business tax rates in this country without bringing different revenues into funding govern...
It has to be fair, which means middle-income taxpayers should not pay any more of the cost of our government percentage-wise than they are p...
The major concern we heard today is, will middle-income families pay more? That is something which I said I would not support.
We have to raise the revenue that we say we are going to raise so we do not add to the deficit.
Tax reform, in order to be successful, must have certain conditions met. One is an open process, transparency.
I am pleased that Secretary Tillerson opposes this shift and believes this work is essential to the Department's mission.