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On the recordApril 29, 2024
Thank you so much for your testimony today about a budget that demonstrates that we can put our country on sound financial footing, reduce our deficit, and make some new investments so long as we demand that the well-connected and large corporations pay their fair share, and that we begin to close some of the loopholes in a tax code that is so full of holes it looks like Swiss cheese.
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Lloyd Doggett
Democratic · Texas

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Doggett emphasizes the need for fair corporate taxation to improve the budget.

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