I think your colleagues at the Tax Foundation have estimated that over $300 billion a year is lost in productivity due to the complexity of the United States tax code.

By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 429 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 429 Resolved, That at any time after adoption of this resolution the Speaker…

For the purpose of debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentlewoman from New Mexico (Ms. Leger Fernandez), pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. During consideration of this resolution, all time yielded…

May I inquire as to the time remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Texas has 10\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentlewoman from New Mexico has 8 minutes remaining.

You are paying five times as much for long-term care services as veterans as you need to be.

we are looking at a time where every tax dollar that is spent should come under scrutiny.

every dollar that is not well spent in the program deprives some other veteran of a service that they may need or increases their time on a waiting list.

The Inflation Reduction Act raises the loan authority for green energy by $350 billion. That is a lot of Solyndras.

It is a perfect example of the absurd arguments that are being made to increase the out-of-control spending.

As a physician, I want to go where my time is going to be maximized.

It is just fundamentally wrong that, because of an academic degree that I have, I am not able to engage in a lawful practice in this country.

it is just fundamentally wrong that a hospital can own a doctor, but a doctor can't own a hospital.