I think your report is full of important recommendations.

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

There is today such a connection between the individual portions of the code and the corporate portions of the code.

What is going to be our challenge in the Administration?

If we have, Mr. Chairman and colleagues, the same debate in the lame duck session of 2012, where we are once again talking about extending the tax law today for two more years, Dr. Elmendorf has told us that will be damaging for the…

I just do not want them forgotten.

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?

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?

$100 billion is not impressing financial markets.

I am very interested in seeing the corporate rate cut considerably and have proposed cutting it from 35 to 24.

I want red, white, and blue jobs.

I clearly come to these trade issues looking for ways to open markets.

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

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.

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

Would not having a one-page 1040 Form... be a public good in terms of simplicity?

the big idea for economic growth in our country is fundamental tax reform, where you go in there and clean out this job-killing, thoroughly discredited mess

We ought to make it more attractive to repatriate that money through tax law and incent private sector job growth.

I would much prefer to do it in concert working with you than trying to go forward myself.

Which would mean that the fiscal picture you have painted today would not be quite the bleak one that you have offered.

I do not think that we want to concede China or Asia or Europe or any of these other emerging markets to our foreign competitors.

At a little after 8:00, there were more than 30 United States Senators there interested in actually getting into the details.

I think the Europeans ought to do more to defend themselves in the future.

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

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