Jason Smith

We would not be here if it wasn't for Mr. Graves, his advocacy and pushing us.

We stand with these families and Israel. We affirm Israel's right to fully defend itself against terrorists.

The eruption of hatred towards Jewish students on college campuses after the October 7 attack has been disturbing to watch.

I think there should be, number one, investigations into non-profits that could be supporting terrorism.

The October 7 terrorist attack by Hamas was barbaric and horrifying.

Freedom of speech is not a get-out-of-jail-free card to be able to abuse others.

I think we could come up with, both sides, more appropriate designations than what this proposal seems to outline.

I worry when arbitrary designations are leveled across the country viewing one state at a time monolithically.

This change will divert resources away from America's rural communities.

This is about robbing resources from rural America and rewarding coastal elites.

I don't think it makes sense to say that someone who has $47,000 of income in California is somehow worse off than someone who has $47,000 in one of those other lower-income states.

This is a free trade agreement with China.

Holding patients harmless was the central point of the law that we passed and what all of us wanted to accomplish for our constituents.

As has been mentioned numerous times already this morning, we passed this bipartisan legislation to protect our constituents from surprise medical bills.

We passed something. It has created some good for many patients, and we are now reflecting on it.

We wanted to alleviate their anxiety by taking them out of the equation.

I think it is important to be clear that when we pass a law requiring payers and providers to go through a dispute resolution process, we intend for the relevant parties to participate in that process, not ignore it.

We created a system that we believed would lead doctors to want to be in-network.

That is what was happening.

Allowing CCP-supported companies to gain a competitive advantage against the United States is yet another failure in these negotiations by the Biden Administration.

Whether by manipulating financial statements or by creating new state subsidies, China will find ways to evade these OECD rules.

I urge any IRS employee watching today, if you know of misconduct, please come to the Ways and Means Committee.

Would Americans in my congressional district or any other congressional district ever receive the same treatment?

The power to tax demands the highest level of accountability to the American people, especially when masses of jobs are at risk.

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