Dean Heller

It was mentioned earlier that 40 percent of Obamacare dollars are spent on four States: California, Maryland, Massachusetts, and New York, and they only represent 22 percent of the population.

Does this legislation give Nevada more dollars with more flexibility?

Mr. Chairman, I want to thank you and the ranking member for holding this hearing today on Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson.

The combination of a 20-percent corporate tax rate and full expensing would boost after-tax income by an average of 5.2 percent.

It is time to get our economy back on track, help our workers and small businesses win on the international playing field.

Lower rates mean a faster-growing economy, increased international competitiveness. Lower rates will also mean more jobs, better jobs, and higher wages.

For too long, Nevadans and America's small-business companies have been at a competitive disadvantage due to our outdated and unfair tax code.

Relief means letting the middle class keep more of their hard-earned paychecks.

The current economic situation is not acceptable.

So Nevadans have been waiting for a fair, simpler tax code for way too long.

One of the goals of the Graham-Cassidy-Heller bill that I think is so important is providing States with an increased flexibility to innovate.

I cannot imagine that anybody in this room would disagree with that.

One of the reasons why I am attracted to this piece of legislation is that recently in the State of Nevada we were going to have 14 bare counties.

I want to thank the ranking member and the chairman for holding this hearing today. It is a critical program, and it is a program that helps millions of children.

I want the average taxpayer out there to know that if we go through this activity and this process, that there is something at the end of the day that works for them.

I believe that a tax reform package, comprehensive or changes in our tax code, would go a long way to solving some of these problems.

He's been a good, you know, he's been working pretty hard at this. He's been a really good individual trying to get to yes on this particular piece of legislation.

Everything at this point matters, so having that discussion does matter.

I'm simply not going to support it.

This bill, this bill that's currently in front of the United States Senate is not the answer. It's simply not the answer.

I look forward to working with you to ensure that promoting tourism and travel-related services is an integral part of the U.S. trade agenda.

We had a previous Secretary who said that he could get the claims down to zero by--I think it was 2015.

I have been working with this issue for years; and to think that you could actually turn one around in 3 days is pretty incredible.

I mean, that is big news.

We should not be doing things that are going to be hurting veterans that cannot afford to lose these benefits.