Robert Packwood: “Only President Reagan's personal intervention caused the bill to pass the House.”

When we're in the Sunshine, as soon as we vote, every trade association in the country gets out their mailgrams and their phone calls in 12 hours and complains about the members' votes. But when we're in the back room, the Senators can…

Well, that is why this committee--at least in Bill's and my era, there was much more nonpartisanship in the Senate than there apparently is today.

The income tax base, which has become riddled with exclusions, exemptions, deductions, and credits, should be as broad as possible.

Taxpayers and businesses spend over six billion hours a year complying with tax-filing requirements.