Roy Blunt: “last week I came to the floor to talk about why we needed to pass the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. I am proud to say that the…”

“last week I came to the floor to talk about why we needed to pass the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. I am proud to say that the Senate has passed that bill. I expect the Senate to move to conference with the House this week, and I am confident that the final bill will be an even better bill than the bill passed by either the House or Senate. More importantly, I am confident that it will get us on track for real tax relief for working families, and we will have this bill on the President's desk by the end of this year. Last week when the bill passed, I said that it isn't just about changing the trajectory of our economy, it is about changing the future we hand to our kids and our grandkids. I really think that is what this bill will do. There is a lot of talk in Washington about things that, frankly, will never turn out to be the facts--maybe they are the alternative facts-- but one thing I think will happen is that working families will see, in one of their first paychecks next year, that this tax bill and these tax cuts really affect them. Whatever your paycheck is--reflected in what you start getting paid on January 1--in virtually every case, working families are going to have more take-home pay, and those numbers are pretty big. A few weeks ago, I was at Patriot Machine in St. Charles, MO, and spoke to the employees who work there. The one thing they were concerned about was, what does this mean to me? What does this mean to my family?…”