Mr. Moore, you stated that CBO estimates show that the tax cuts are paying for themselves, but this is precisely the opposite of what CBO is saying.

Despite White House promises, working families aren't better off, and another hearing is not going to change that.

But there's a problem. Despite White House promises, working families aren't better off, and another hearing won't change that.

Well, it feels like deja vu all over again. Another hearing on the Republican tax law passed 9 months ago.

It was a massive waste of resources when workers could least afford it and when we should have been investing in our people and communities.

But let me suggest that maybe what we should have done here is to actually have a hearing with hourly workers to ask them how they are faring, rather than asking economists how workers are faring.

We do want to measure how these policies are affecting the middle class and the least among us.

We need to connect our economy and invest in rural areas as opposed to just say to rural people they should move to the cities.

there was a fairly explicit promise made by the President, and some Members of Congress, that this would result in $4,000 worth of additional wages

The law simply has not lived up to Republican promises. The White House and our Republican colleagues promised families a $4,000-a-year increase in income. That simply has not happened.

hourly workers have been asking, 'Are we there yet?' for 38 years, while their wages have stagnated

Thank you Chairman Paulsen.