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

The importance of today's hearing should not be understated.

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

I am disappointed that the testimony of Seth Hanlon... was rejected for this hearing.

I think each of these offer a potential for discussion but not if they are only to be crumbs off the table.

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

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

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.

Sixty percent of American households get 16 percent of the tax benefits today on retirement plans.

I believe we need a thorough consideration of it with a wide range of opinion.

We know that there are millions of our neighbors across America who do not have adequate savings for their retirement.

I agree with you completely about retroactive provisions.

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

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

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

The only sanctuary involved here today is the sanctuary that this sorry bill provides for prejudice. This is the Trump counterpart to the outrageous SB4 that Governor Greg Abbott has been promoting in Texas. It all goes back to the…

This bill wrongfully endorses political interference with professional law enforcement leaders. With no legal authority, both President Trump and his Texan look-alike, Governor Greg Abbott, want to deny funds and intimidate local…

Project QUEST has an 86 percent job placement rate for its graduates, who boost their incomes, on average, from $10,000 a year before entering the program to $40,000 a year. I know there are similar programs in other parts of the country…

I thank the gentleman and both my colleagues, though I respectfully disagree that this Congress has placed any priority on helping get people out of poverty. Indeed, when it comes to poverty in America, this Congress has largely been…

I would do nothing else, Mr. Speaker. And this particular example shows how the proceedings of the House would be impaired if the only aspect of the budget that increases HUD is one from which Mr. Trump personally benefits, which is what…

Certainly. And one of those aspects of the question of privilege is how conflicts of interest interface with what we are doing here in the House. I mentioned the tax returns and the Russia investigation, but there is a new one out today…

No. I think he has only wanted to listen to one side, and I don't begin to think that even the Republican Members of this House can contain President Trump. They seem to have sealed their lips about it, and I wish they would speak out…

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.

If the gentleman would further yield, I heard a rather bizarre comment last week in the aftermath of these shootings suggesting that, in the aftermath of them, Democrats would be reaching out to Republicans on healthcare, and I couldn't…