Steve Largent: “Absolutely it was on the advice of counsel, to take advantage of the tax loopholes and shelters and everything else that…”

I guess the question that I would ask in reverse to the gentleman is are you prepared to defend the current Tax Code in its current form or do you really want tax reform in a comprehensive nature?

Absolutely. I would just submit, Mr. Speaker, that the relationship of the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Frank] with another man does not threaten my marriage whatsoever, my marriage of 21 years with the same woman.

The Government has a lot of spectrum. We need to try to figure out a way to free it up.

I want to address the last speaker's comments and say that, first, we need to step back from trees and look at the forest and try to take a long view of our culture, and we can look at history and show that no culture that has ever…