Rob Portman actually said...

"Building on what my colleague, Congressman Clyburn, just said and what Co-Chair Hensarling talked about earlier in terms of the impact of the deficit and debt on the economy."

"If you lowered the corporate rate and did so by getting rid of some of the existing preferences and those preferences also applied to the pass-throughs, it would seem unfair."

"It appears as though we are heading there if you look at the current policy baseline."

"So I think it is a great point that the economy is going to drive so much of this."