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As I listen to the presentation by those from the other side of the aisle, it is always the same siren song. There is always a higher priority than helping families, giving families tax relief, so that they will have more in their pockets…
Today, we take the final step toward ending the marriage penalty for 25 million married couples. That is 50 million Americans. Once again, this can-do Congress is sending common sense legislation to the President so we can help America's…
Mr. Speaker, we have accomplished a great deal this year for older Americans and for baby boomers who are nearing retirement. We repealed the punitive Social Security earnings penalty so that seniors who wanted to continue to work could do…
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, a little less than 2 months ago, the American people and this House spoke out overwhelmingly in favor of expanded trade with China. With broad bipartisan support, we passed a measure granting American workers, farmers, and…
Mr. Speaker, here we are again. We are here again moving this Congress to do the right thing for married couples by eliminating the marriage tax penalty in the Tax Code. This bill is identical to H.R. 6 that passed this House in February…
Mr. Speaker, today 12 million seniors and disabled Americans on Medicare, including 7 million women, have no prescription drug coverage. For the vast majority of seniors living on fixed incomes, this is a very difficult situation. This…
Several Members in support of the Rangel substitute... have begged us to adopt the Rangel substitute because their farmers need help now. Well, I find it curious that the Farm Bureau has endorsed not the Rangel substitute but the…
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…
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…
Mr. Speaker, at this historic moment in this debate today, all Members should keep an open mind to objectively make the right decision, without pressure from outside groups, as to what is in the best interests of the United States, its…
Mr. Chairman, I say to my fellow Members that this debate today is likely the most important debate that we will make, not only in this Congress, perhaps in our entire careers. I rise in strong and full support of this legislation which…
Mr. Speaker, while some might find it surprising, I still do my own taxes. Often people ask me why, and the answer is easy. I think that as chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means I should understand fully all of the difficulties, all…
Madam Speaker, today is a great day for hundreds of thousands of working seniors across this country. It is also a special day for me personally, because it is a culmination of my 27-year effort to repeal the earnings limit. In fact, I…
Mr. Speaker, today will be another day of accomplishment for the American people because today Congress will once again do the right thing and pass a plan to help make health care more affordable and accessible for hard-working…
Mr. Speaker, today is an exciting day for me personally, and it is a great day for the hundreds of thousands of working seniors across this country. It is the culmination of my personal 29-year effort to repeal the earnings penalty. I…
Mr. Speaker, today the Congress is launching into a debate to do the right thing, to correct the terrible wrong in the Tax Code that is called the marriage penalty that penalizes Americans simply because they got married. That is truly…
Mr. Speaker, for many reasons, I rise in strong opposition to this substitute amendment. But perhaps the most important reason is shown in these charts. Here is the basic H.R. 6 bill. What it does to provide relief, it doubles the standard…
The gentleman clearly knows that whatever budget resolution we adopt will have plenty of room for this modest tax cut. The gentleman fully knows that it will not interfere with Medicare, that it will not interfere with Social Security…
Mr. Speaker, I must say that as I stand here in the well of this House of the people that I sense a string of large red herrings being drawn across the well. There is no connection between what we are doing here and Social Security or…
I certainly have sympathy for the plight of the oil and gas industry, and I am concerned about the plight of the steel industry also. But I was taught early in life that the end never justifies the means, and this means is one of the most…
Mr. Speaker, the one thing that has not been debated tonight yet is what is in the Democrats' motion to instruct. One thing that is not in it is a 10 percent across-the-board tax relief to all working Americans and families, men and women…
I would add, for the gentleman, because I know others will be concerned about this, that we have not extended this to any personnel that stayed domestically located in the United States of America because we, in this legislation, do not…
Mr. Speaker, I am proud to bring before the House today H.R. 1376, a bill to extend combat zone tax benefits to U.S. troops serving in Operation Allied Force. H.R. 1376 will provide well-deserved tax relief to those troops, including…
H.R. 975 directs the President, in effect mandates the President, to establish quotas to limit steel imports into the U.S., and I urge its defeat. This is more than rhetoric, this is a serious matter, and what we do today will have…
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