Don Nickles: “Why shouldn't we do it for the communication workers or the airline workers or the hotel workers in Nevada?”

If you do really good tax reform, you do not need energy tax issues. Let the marketplace work.

The administration's proposal would dramatically scale down the activity in the oil patch.

I could not disagree with you more.

I do not defend 199, period. I think Congress--when you are rewriting the tax code, you should have a uniform corporate rate, not a lower rate for manufacturing.