Political Quotes

“Thank you, Mr. President. This week, we took a major step toward helping the middle- and working-class family by passing the first significant tax reform package in a generation. I wanted to take a few minutes to thank a lot of folks for their efforts, hard work, and dedication to this process. At the Member level, both Leader McConnell and Chairman Hatch did amazing work leading us through this process. I also had the privilege of working as part of the Core 4, with Pat Toomey, John Thune, and Rob Portman, over the past year developing this bill. Those three guys are some of the hardest working Members we have. I also thank Marco Rubio for his dedication to improving the child tax credit, as well as Mike Lee and Ivanka Trump. We were also able to include my Investing in Opportunity Act as a part of the legislation. This is legislation that will help distressed communities throughout the country. More than 50 million Americans today live in those distressed communities, and the Investing in Opportunity Act can usher in trillions of dollars of investment to improve the quality of life and create a spark in some of the most challenging areas of our country economically. I thank my House sponsor of the bill, Pat Tiberi, and my Democratic cosponsors, Corey Booker and Ron Kind. We could not have gotten this far without the hard work and dedication of the Finance Committee staff.…”