Steve Pearce: “I suspect I will not get a round of approval to vote from people who make $31,000 a year average income in my district…”

I strongly oppose H.R. 1834, the Taxing Remittances to Pay for the Border Wall Act.

Again, these two bills are designed not to bypass anything, not to cause great destruction in the environment, but to be practical, common-sense approaches to how do we reach the economic potential of a state where that potential is ready…

I find myself on the other side of the policy. And so it is trying to harmonize those two positions.

The flags are still in the ground, and the jobs are gone. And, by the way, the Chinese started charging 35 percent excise tax on the rare earth minerals, because they want to put our manufacturers out of business.