Kevin Brady

Thank you, Chairman Neal, for convening this important hearing today.

I am proud to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Kansas (Mr. Estes).

I am proud to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Paulsen), an outstanding key member of the Ways and Means Committee.

I recognize, under a Democrat majority, every American will be taller and smarter and better looking. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Holding), who helped lead legislation dealing with disaster…

I know everyone in Congress is eager to get back to a full week of Christmas shopping, but I am proud to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Rice) who represents a community devastated by disasters in 2018.

May I ask how much time I have left. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Weber of Texas). The gentleman from Texas has 4 minutes remaining.

I note that the average middle class family in the 12th District of California will see a tax cut of $5,508 each year. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Wenstrup), a key member of the Ways and Means Committee.

Because of tax reform, Main Street businesses are booming. The chairman of the Small Business Committee has played a key role in that. Mr. Speaker, I am proud to yield 2 minutes to the gentlemen from Ohio (Mr. Chabot).

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

I'm very proud to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Smith), who is a key member of our Ways and Means Committee and who played, again, such a leadership role on tax reform for small businesses and agriculture.

I am very proud to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Walker), one of the three original leaders of this bill.

I am proud to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Davis), the leader and the original sponsor of this bill.

I am proud to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Holding).

I am proud to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Bishop), the leader of the STOP Act, which prevents illegal smuggling of fentanyl into the United States.

I am proud to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Roskam), the leader of the Health Subcommittee.

This is just a first start. We have to make this permanent ASAP.

We write today urging you to approve the direct allocation of the appropriated share of Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Relief Funds.

I thank Congressman Culberson not just for his leadership of this special tribute to Barbara Bush, but for keeping the legacy of President Bush and the Bush family alive in the eastern region in the district that he represented. Mr…

We are grateful for U.S. representatives Michael McCaul and Kevin Brady for petitioning FEMA to allow us to operate the self-help storm debris drop-off site.

If these exclusions aren't provided in a workable and timely way, this could cost us U.S. jobs.

We are committed to working closely with you and the President to make sure we hit the target.

We applaud the President for his leadership in insisting that we address this problem.

That just doesn't seem right.

So if that--their product isn't excluded, what do I tell them?

Congress takes our constitutionally-mandated oversight role over trade policy very seriously.