Tom Rice

It is apparent that it is not a new problem. This is something that has been evolving over 30 years.

What would be your opinion? Do you see one on the horizon or not?

Is the trend favorable today or not?

I do think tax reform is a big one, making the incentives that--keeping business and investment outside the U.S. is the wrong incentive.

Infrastructure investment in the U.S. would also help make it more competitive.

There are a whole lot of major issues that are facing this country that have been over our heads for a long time, and I believe are holding our economy back: tax reform, healthcare, infrastructure, but none more important to more people…

The only problem with Federal trust funds is if they are not funded, you can't trust them.

the independence and State sovereignty is important.

I say make America competitive again.

How can you ensure that we achieve fair trade, trade where American companies and American workers can compete on a level playing field?

don't taxes have a very direct impact on trade?

Just to clarify, the President is not talking about cutting benefits. He's talking about cutting administrative costs.

Thank you for your efforts.

If we truly want to grow the middle class, if we want to give them a raise, if we want to reduce income inequality, we must make our Tax Code competitive in the world.

How can we sit here on our hands and put our American companies at a disadvantage to those?

But what has our country done? You know, where our country fails to recognize, we argue about, you know, maintaining this level of revenue or that or how these benefits are going to be disbursed through society, but the fact that we have…

I stand in support of the American people today who are being dragged down by this failing disaster called ObamaCare. Since I first got to Congress, I have consistently heard from people across the Seventh District of South Carolina who…

If there were 24 of these special prosecutors and they recovered $14 million that is what, about a half million dollars apiece? I will tell you what, they pay for themselves.

I stand in strong support of the American Health Care Act and urge my colleagues to vote in favor of the bill. ObamaCare was built on broken promises. President Obama said you could keep your policy, keep your doctor, and it would bring…

The CEO of a major hospital in South Carolina stated, the way it is going right now, it is probably going to implode in the next year or two. Our State's director of insurance, last year, said companies have given their best shot and can't…

4 percent of the people of South Carolina have individual policies under ObamaCare. I submit to you that if you have a health insurance policy that pays nothing, with a deductible so high that you can't use it, regardless of the fact that…

I put that on Washington, D.C.

It seems to me that the way you deal with poverty is you have to do what you can to make sure people have opportunity on the one hand, and then on the other hand you have to do what you can to make sure they take advantage of that…

Medicare is certainly a noble and essential program provided by the Federal Government. It is a promise made to our seniors, and we have to make that promise solid and keep it--and make sure it is kept.

With $20 trillion in debt, we have to make sure that those dollars are spent wisely.