Jason Smith

The $77 billion increase in the death tax will force family farms and ranches to sell their assets or risk closing their doors.

The budget before us today calls for $4.7 trillion in new taxes, and $6.9 trillion in new spending during a staggering debt crisis.

Last year Democrats in Congress rammed through $80 billion in mandatory funding for the IRS after your department asked for it in conjunction with the President's first budget proposal.

So in regards to audits and fairness, you will never use race or gender in deciding audits.

My Democrat colleagues the last four years did not have a budget. So it is rich when I hear them talk about us presenting a budget.

to right-size the Federal Government.

Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith bragged that he would use the debt ceiling 'to right size the Federal Government.'

Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith bragged that he would use the debt ceiling 'to right size the Federal Government.'

to right-size the Federal Government.

I appreciate that question. I know we are short on time, but there are three things that I would want to highlight there.

Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith bragged that he would use the debt ceiling 'to right size the Federal Government.'

to right-size the Federal Government.

We could have done far better, as we wanted to at that time, by incentivizing people to go back to work.

Congresswoman Spanberger and I have introduced the Preventing Improper Payments Act, and--which we prepared following an excellent study by the GAO about how we can safeguard taxpayer dollars and prevent more waste, fraud, and abuse in the…

We need less government. We need more people, American people, going back.

The state of the American economy, and it is in danger: historic inflation, high energy bills, declining real wages.

We must prioritize the voices in rooms like this one and not those of the Washington political class.

I thank the gentleman from Nebraska for yielding. House Republicans made a promise to the American people to fight for working-class families. And we made a promise that our first order of business under a new Republican majority would be…

We are 12 days, 12 days until the Democrat majority does not exist. In 13 days, the Republican majority will be in charge. Americans are facing the highest spike in prices in 40 years because of the one-party Democrat rule in Washington…

May I inquire as to how much time is remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. Underwood). The gentleman from Missouri has 1 minute remaining.

I include in the Record analysis from the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation, which confirms that the bill increases taxes by $10.6 billion on individuals making under $200,000 in 2023 and increases taxes by $32.6 billion across all…

I would like to point out to the gentleman from Nevada that since Joe Biden has taken the oath of office, his reckless spending has led to an inflation crisis that has cost his families in Nevada $9,700 per family. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1…

The solution to the inflation crisis that the Democrats have set forward is to spend hundreds of billions of more dollars and to tax all hardworking Americans once again. You cannot spend your way out of inflation, and you cannot tax your…

I include in the Record a letter from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, which confirmed that this bill will raise the cost of new prescription drugs for all Americans. U.S. Congress, Congressional Budget Office, Washington, DC…

I include in the Record notice from over 230 economists that this bill before us today would only increase inflation. [From FOX Business, Aug. 4, 2022] Over 230 Economists Warn Manchin's Spending Bill Will Perpetuate Inflation (By Kelly…