Bob Menendez

The code is written in a way that benefits corporations, but does not benefit middle-class taxpayers.

There was. And let me ask you this. Then why did section 1142 of the Trump corporate tax bill specifically prohibit the deduction of prepaid State income taxes?

It requires robust funding at a Federal level to tackle projects that are in the national interest.

The fact is, the Trump plan is a green light for infrastructure nationwide to be sold off to Wall Street investors.

I take a back seat to nobody when it comes to calling for major investments in our infrastructure systems.

You cannot have a big-league economy with little-league infrastructure.

Bottom line, the Trump infrastructure plan dumps huge costs onto States and cities, sells off public assets like an auction at a county fair, and raises transportation costs for hard-working families.

It is just a question of fairness and justice.

This is important because, by deducting in 2017, corporations can, to use your words, Mr. Secretary, game the system.

The Trump corporate tax bill does not prohibit the deduction of prepaid property taxes.

Why would the bill prohibit something that was already disallowed? That is simply illogical.

In our view, the system is abusing us.

We just are not a blue State, we are a blue-chip State that drives innovation and dynamism.

I have to say, I am offended--offended by that accusation.

My sense of cryptocurrency is largely driven to evade U.S. sanctions and to undermine sovereign currencies.

I have been actively following both Venezuela's and Russia's interest in developing virtual currencies for the purposes of evading U.S. sanctions.

Can you commit yourself, after seven months, to give me the briefing you said you would give me?

I was pleased that the Senate passed the Afghanistan Accountability Act, which laid out a framework for the United States to work collaboratively with Afghan and international partners.

Would you agree that the Taliban are able to build marginal support for some key constituents is largely due to their disillusionment and distrust of the central government in Kabul?

It has been nearly a year and a half since the committee has held a hearing on the United States' longest war.

Last year, the Administration proposed cutting more than $6 billion dollars from critical Federal housing and community development programs like CDBG, and supportive housing for the disabled and the elderly.

The law is pretty clear and it seems to me not only did you have to describe the entities but you also had to pursue sanctions, and I will look forward to continuing to press that question of the Administration.

However, is it not true that yesterday the Trump administration failed to apply a single new sanction against anyone who might be supporting these Russian efforts?

So yesterday the Treasury Department identified senior political oligarchs and political figures in Russia, as mandated in the Countering America's Adversaries Through the Sanctions Act, which I was one of the coauthors of, which this body…

The system is abusing them. They paid it in 2017. They should be able to deduct it in 2017.