Lloyd Doggett

They seek to limit, impair, and hinder an already underfunded agency in doing its job of tax avoidance so that everyone contributes to the costs of our national security and vital services. We need to be strengthening the law, ensuring…

There is a serious pharmaceutical price problem and begin to look for some answers rather than simply to ignore the problem.

High pharmaceutical prices are taxing to the American people. In fact, I think they are overtaxing.

It says to Burger King, 'It is okay to go run off to Canada to invert. We are going to cut your taxes more.'

It says to Pfizer that is up here, whining about the fact that it has to pay maybe a nickel, maybe even as much as $.07 or $.08 on its worldwide earnings, we need to cut their taxes a little more.

I think if this Committee had any genuine interest in addressing those companies that are dodging their taxes by declaring themselves un-American, we would have already approved the anti-inversion legislation that has been pending here for…

Instead, what we have is the call for an international tax reform that is nothing more than an excuse for discrimination.

I think it is outrageous that this giant rip-off of the American people continues to occur.

An unaffordable drug is 100 percent ineffective.

The Administration is deeply concerned about rapidly growing prescription drug prices.

This Congress would not be willing to stand up to the pharmaceutical lobby.

There are not very many people that want to vote to pay for those revenue reductions.

If you add this much debt unpaid for in a fiscally irresponsible way, you begin to jeopardize retirement security, Medicare, and Social Security because those so-called entitlements are next up on the chopping block. Reject this giveaway.

The purchasing power of those dollars today is about a third less.

It has not gotten people out of poverty at the rate it should have and into sustainable living wage jobs.

I find the polka dot chart to be very interesting.

I hope that can be a bipartisan effort.

The basic reason that tuition is going up is not because the Federal Government is doing too much to help students, but because the States have been doing too little.

Excessive, exorbitant corporate CEO salaries and soaring prices for consumers are certainly problems and they rarely get any attention in this Committee.

I thank Chairman Ryan as well as Chairman Upton and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, who marked up this bill, and urge bipartisan approval of it. I yield back the balance of my time.

I also wanted to honor Mr. Gwyn, and this is a good opportunity for us to do that. I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Levin), the ranking Democrat on the committee.

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