Lloyd Doggett

Our Ranking Member, Mr. Neal, has advanced legislation to make the earned income tax credit available to the working poor who have no dependent children.

This bill would also ensure that students receiving Pell grants can get the full benefit of the American opportunity tax credit.

Certainly, there is a need to simplify our Tax Code.

It is instructive to consider how that bill proposed to assist individual taxpayers.

Today, we do finally consider the impact of proposed tax reform on individual taxpayers.

NAFTA has not been a disaster. It has, overall, been a benefit.

President Trump has little interest in cooperating or collaborating with Democrats in trying to find solutions to the problems that our country faces.

Yesterday's announcement of the NAFTA objectives appears to demonstrate, again, that total inconsistency.

It was under police guard downstairs so that even Republicans, like Senator Rand Paul, couldn't get in and see the bill. Then we have an all-night session without a single member of the Trump Administration coming to respond to questions…

No. I served on the Ways and Means Committee. We could not see the Republican House bill until hours before it came up.

And that is the fact that there are so many other additional measures that our colleagues' bipartisan efforts that are pending in our committee on energy-efficient residential property, on fuel cells, on small wind energy, on geothermal…

I believe that there is an important additional concern raised by our colleague Mr. Neal already. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Mitchell). The time of the gentleman has expired.

I personally represent San Antonio, San Marcus, Lockhart, and Austin families that already face barriers to getting their children medical coverage, and adding an additional requirement just means they are that much less likely, in the…

The best way to grow our economy at the least cost is comprehensive immigration reform.

We know that if we have a competitive infrastructure... we can be more competitive and grow our economy.

Some see Trump as the only ticket to more tax breaks, and they are willing to pay almost any price to get them.

This is a very troubling time in American history. Our national security has been jeopardized.

One country, more than any other, benefited from their wrong-headed decision, and was empowered. That country was Iran. Today, diplomacy, the opposite of war, is hard to start and easy to end. Let us continue on that path. The path ahead…

This indifference and this refusal to take 100 cents on a Federal dollar to pay for the expansion of healthcare coverage has been a subject that has been raised by business leaders, by hospitals, by elected officials.

There are many factors contributing to these hikes and surges in health insurance premiums, and one of the major factors is the failure of this House and this Congress to do anything but engage in obstructionist tactics concerning the…

There is nothing but repeal, repeal, repeal.

To condemn President Johnson's war on poverty as a failure is to ignore the many who never engaged in fighting that war.

I would love a report at the end of the year to show that if every one of these bills are adopted, that one person got out of poverty this year in America because they were adopted.

There is only one major concern about that and about what we are not doing on child abuse here, and that is that talking about it, passing changes without approving necessary resources to get to the problem.

Time after time, not only in Texas, but across the country, we see the price that is being paid for our failure to deal effectively with child abuse.