Steve Largent: “this is an historic moment. Understand, no one likes to be forced to do anything. My children do not like to be forced…”

“this is an historic moment. Understand, no one likes to be forced to do anything. My children do not like to be forced to make their bed and Congress certainly does not like to be forced to do anything. This bill simply does that, it forces Congress to quit talking about comprehensive tax reform and actually do something about it. And I would suggest to the previous speaker that maybe the reason he is in the minority and not in control is because it was his side that gave us this, the 6,200 pages that we currently know as the tax forms and instructions about how to file our tax returns today. And the gentleman is also right about another thing. The way it has always been done before is to go to the Committee on Ways and Means, in a small room in the back, and a few people decide about what the Tax Code should look like for the American people. What we are trying to do is to include all of the American people in the debate and in the discussion and in coming up with a comprehensive tax reform that is written not by a few people on the Committee on Ways and Means but is a consensus opinion of the American people and the business people in the communities around the country, the people that are suffering through 5.4 billion hours filing their tax return every year at a cost of somewhere over $200 billion just simply to comply with the current Tax Code.”