Collin Peterson: “It is not a constitutional quagmire. I don't know why people bring this up, because it was clear in this 1892 court case…”

I would just take one additional small amount of time to thank my colleague and friend, Mr. Goodlatte, for the work that he did with me on this bill. As he said, this has been a bipartisan effort; had it not been, we wouldn't be here…

I want to alert the Members of the body that this motion to recommit has the word ``promptly'' in it. What that means is if this goes back to the committee, this kills this bill. It kills the reform that we have done in this bill. It kills…

I, as well, want to commend the gentleman from California and the gentleman from Mississippi for their willingness to work with us on this issue, as well as the ranking member. We, on the committee, have an investigator that does work for…

But I just want to make clear that in my opinion what we're doing here is not a tax increase. And frankly, what we ought to be doing is investigating why we have all these people on the payroll at the State Department and at the Treasury…