Ron Wyden

Bob McIntyre did as much as anybody to, in effect, thread that needle.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank all three of your organizations.

I am trying to crack down on contractors in the intelligence sector. Why shouldn't we ask the Department of Defense to make a crackdown on contractors within its own agency?

What is your response to my concern that there is going to be a double standard with respect to measuring inefficiency?

I would much prefer to have the whole 10,000 here, personally.

I want red, white, and blue jobs.

What I want to do is make sure that as part of this debate we see that to really drive the deficit down, you have to do some serious growing.

Isn't the heart of your interest in tax reform, that it will help us create more good-paying jobs and it is key to growth?

Do the two of you agree that this time as part of tax reform it is going to be important to have a mechanism in place to no longer have this easy backsliding?

I do believe that the American people who benefit from Social Security and Medicare want to see us bring the wasteful Washington spending under control, too, that it should not be off the table.

What is going to be our challenge in the Administration?

I think it would be possible to again build a bipartisan coalition for Build America Bonds if we get them to focus only on transportation.

To drive the deficit down dramatically, we need more economic growth.

I am concerned that with the proposal that you are offering now in the rural West we are going to see rural counties go bankrupt.

We should not start in a place that is going to further distort the code.

There are so many things that cut across the aisle that both sides would agree we do not need five educational subsidies.

There are very few members who have come up with such significant contributions in tax reform and health care reform

What the whole exercise is about is creating incentives for this economic renaissance that this country wants so much at this time.

The people of my State have voted against a VAT something like 850 times.

There is a sense that it is just a back-door plan to hike taxes.

I find it pretty alarming how short shrift small business is getting in this whole discussion about tax reform.

More than 90 United States Senators voted against a VAT.

The current income tax is broken and that the VAT is an efficient tax, and it is not necessarily a money machine.

I just do not want them forgotten.

I agree with your conclusion. I think tax reform, lowering the rate, broadening the base, is good for the economy.