Thomas R. Suozzi

It is very important, Congresswoman, what you point out. This is a mandatory payment. You are not spending the money to go on vacation; you are not spending money to go out to dinner; you are not building an addition onto your home. This…

Congresswoman, I ask you, please go into it a little bit further about this concept of double taxation. We have heard it several times here tonight. Just explain what you mean by double taxation. Madam Speaker, I yield to the Congresswoman…

Thank you, Congressman. It really galls me sometimes when I hear people boasting about the fact that they are leaving our States and moving to other States, when, in fact, we are subsidizing the rest of the country with our tax dollars…

Congressman, I want to thank you so much. You hit on the topic of fairness so many times. Many of our States and our local governments have relied on this deduction for literally a hundred years, and it was suddenly taken away in 2017. It…

Congresswoman, thank you so much for being here tonight and for speaking out on this very important issue. We are grateful for your presence here tonight. Madam Speaker, at this time I would like to go to the middle of the country, to the…

Now I want to go across the aisle again to Congresswoman Michelle Steel from California, who is also being accosted by her constituents. They are talking to her about the fact that they need the SALT deduction back. Madam Speaker, I yield…

So if a family makes $100,000 in your State, and they have to pay $20,000 in taxes, between their property taxes and their income taxes, that leaves them with $80,000 of that income. However, if they are in a low tax State where they don't…

Congresswoman, you have been an amazing advocate. You mentioned in your remarks at the end there about this being a double tax. Can you tell us a little bit about that?

I thank the gentleman for being such a fierce advocate. Madam Speaker, I want to travel across the country from California now to New Jersey, to another fierce advocate; someone who served in the U.S. military as a Navy helicopter pilot…

So we have to recognize that the country is not the same all over. If you make $150,000 in your household, you are in the top 20 percent of the income earners of the country. However, if you make $150,000 in your district or my district…

I just want to--some people, when they hear you talk about this, and they hear a home worth $500,000, $600,000, $700,000, $800,000, they think, boy, that person must be really rich. What they don't seem to understand is that in my State…

I thank the gentlewoman for her leadership on this and for being such a fierce advocate for the middle class. I now introduce a good friend of mine from California, who really had a district that was devastated by COVID. People lost their…

I thank Mr. Pascrell very much for his comments. I yield to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Eshoo), a good friend and a leader, not just on this issue but in Congress.

I know that the gentleman has always been a strong proponent for law enforcement, for the firefighters, and public safety officials, and they are very dramatically negatively affected by this. Is that right?

And so they put a deduction in place for State and local taxes so that State and local governments could govern the way they wish.

And you talk about President Lincoln when the Federal Tax Code was first adopted, and the idea was that we didn't want the Federal Government stopping local governments and State governments from being the laboratories of democracy.

Well, I thank Mr. Pascrell very much for his comments. I wanted to mention that the gentleman served as the mayor of his hometown. I yield to the gentleman.

I thank Congresswoman Kim for her comments. At this time, I yield to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Pascrell), who has been a real leader on the issue of SALT, and who has been outspoken ever since 2017 on this issue. We are grateful…

And are people talking about leaving the region because of the effect of the taxes? I yield to the gentlewoman.

I appreciate Congresswoman Kim so much and thank her for being here this evening. You have been hearing about the SALT cap and the effect on your constituents. Have they been talking to you about this a great deal? Madam Speaker, I yield…

I represent three of the six hardest-hit counties in America. New York is the epicenter of the pandemic. As a former mayor and county executive, my biggest priorities have been to deliver funds to New York based upon the rate of infection…

In America, we've always believed... that the more China was exposed to the West... they'd become more like us. That just hasn't happened.

I just want to clarify, again, that premium cigars are already subject to a Federal excise tax, and there is no carve-out for the taxes on premium cigars. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. Carolyn B…

I just want to mention again that the Protecting American Lungs Act had over 50 public health, medical, and educational organizations sponsoring it. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Shalala), a very…

I just want to note again that the bipartisan Protecting American Lungs Act, again, has over 50 public health, medical, and educational organizations supporting it. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Danny…