Kevin Brady

In America, we let competition pick winners and losers, not the government.

Instead of continuing the ObamaCare prohibition on these hospitals, which was included in the 2,000-plus-page law as a political favor to the American Hospital Association and others, we ought to allow patients access to the high-quality…

I am proud to yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Tennessee (Mrs. Black), one of our key members of the Ways and Means Committee who has been fighting for this as a Representative from Tennessee, and as a small business owner, she…

I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. Herrera Beutler), a distinguished Member of the House who has been fighting for the State and local sales tax deduction and, as a new mom, understands just how…

I am proud to honor and yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Sam Johnson), one of the key leaders of the Ways and Means Committee who has been in this fight to successfully restore and extend the sales tax deduction for many…

I am pleased to yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Reichert), the leader of our tax reform subcommittee and a champion in restoring the State and local sales tax deduction.

I have one further request for time. Mr. McDERMOTT. I reserve the balance of my time.

I am proud to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from east Texas (Mr. Gohmert).

I am proud to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Stutzman), a fourth-generation farmer.

I am proud to yield one 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Reichert), the leader of the Select Revenue Subcommittee on the Ways and Means Committee.

I am proud to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Smith), another new member of the Ways and Means Committee who understands just how fragile these family-owned farms and businesses are.

I am very proud to yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from South Dakota (Mrs. Noem), a key member of the Ways and Means Committee.

I am proud to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Montana (Mr. Zinke), a fifth-generation proud resident of his State.

Our tax code is too costly, complex and unfair--but mostly unfair.

I believe a 21st century tax code shouldn't raise taxes to bail out Washington's spending problem.

The death tax is especially destructive for women- and minority owned small businesses.

Eighty percent of voters support Congress acting now to fix the tax code by making it fairer, flatter and simpler.

I know some lawmakers in Congress, probably on both sides of the aisle, are tired of these hearings.

The ACA restricted those, in effect, shifting costs from those who are older and usually had more healthcare costs to those who are younger and who don't.

This may be one of the reasons this is the most disappointing economic recovery in 50 years.

He wants to grow. And I have a small pizza business in Willis, Texas, who would like to expand to two neighboring communities but, primarily because of this, simply can't afford to do so.

Like you, I have a local restauranteur who, you know, has instructed his four store managers they will never again hire a full-time worker.

It is the law of the land. Until the Supreme Court rules in May or June or whatever they do, it is the law of the land.

I have never said this was a perfect bill. I never thought it was.

This is not how affordable healthcare reform should work.