Bill Pascrell: “I believe that you are there to oversee fairness.”

I am glad the budget includes finally closing the carried interest loophole, maybe the worst loophole in the entire tax code.

That fact should surprise no one, since it was Republicans that stole away that middle-class tax help in the first place. This is a very critical issue, Mr. Speaker. I hope we address it sooner rather than later. The SPEAKER pro tempore…

Similarly, the cost of insulin is now capped at $35 for millions of Americans, thanks to the action that we took.

So I am proud of our efforts to make big business and rich tax cheats finally pay their fair share. What the heck is wrong with that? And we have made progress.