Bill Archer: “Well, needless to say, for one who continued to do his own tax return, simplification has a lot of appeal to me.”

Thank you for that welcome, Mr. Chairman. And thank you for the job you are doing on tax reform.

Mr. Speaker, today is another historic and proud moment for this House, for our country, and for me personally. When I came to Congress 30 years ago, I had three major goals. One was to balance the budget so that future generations would…

I would simply explain to the Members that this motion to instruct is actually an oxymoron, because on the one hand it says, within the scope of conference, limit the marriage bonus; and yet there is no difference between the Senate and…

Mr. Speaker, my friend from Georgia has not read the entire agreement or read the 1979 agreement between the Chinese and the U.S., obviously, because what he said is not valid. There are many things in this agreement which are not included…