Adrian Smith: “May I inquire how much time is remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman has 19 minutes remaining.”

I certainly thank my colleagues for a bipartisan effort in moving forward a solution. I am proud to say that the tradition within the Committee on Ways and Means, especially Social Security issues, is bipartisan. When we can work together…

The American people want us to have a thoughtful exchange here. I will hopefully contribute to that, especially when I hear some of the accusations made that are just off base, misleading, and false. Warren Buffett has paid a record amount…

When it is 80-plus percent of the time they are failing and people are losing all of their equity then it is designed to fail.

I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 466. ____________________