On the recordDecember 19, 2017
This is a historic day. I am reminded that 17 years ago, I got elected to Congress, campaigning on tax reform and campaigning on the fact that it is not our money, it is our constituents' money. Today we are giving the money back to our constituents. To Bob and Betty Buckeye in Ohio, it is more wages in their pockets. The bill also includes an initiative that I worked on with Mr. Kind that is bipartisan, called the Investing in Opportunity Act, cosponsored by Mr. Neal. This bill, authored by my friend in the Senate, Tim Scott, will help areas that haven't seen economic recovery to allow private investment in poor rural and urban areas. Thanks to Mr. Scott, the bill was in the Senate version and in the conference committee. Mr. Neal knows that incentives like that, the low-income housing tax credit, the new markets tax credit, and the historic tax credit will help those in communities that have been left behind with more money in working families' pockets. I urge adoption of the conference report.
