Pete Sessions: “Tonight I join to talk and to thank the leadership of the Republican Party, who made a firm decision during the last…”

“Tonight I join to talk and to thank the leadership of the Republican Party, who made a firm decision during the last elections that our party needed to stand for not only making America great again, but every single American who needed an opportunity to join in that endeavor. Tonight, I stand in this beautiful time that we discuss the tax bill that Republicans passed last year and talk about the effects of it and how much it has helped in America. I think a story needs to be told about what the goal of the tax bill was. Why did Republicans work so hard to move these ideas forward? The bottom line to it is Americans watched as the Democratic Party and President Obama not only had their control of the country, but economically, as the policies of the Democratic Party became more apparent to people, Americans and the world watched as America dwindled in economic activity and economic growth. This took place because of the policies that the President, President Obama at the time, brought forth and Congress passed: trillion-dollar spending plans, trillion-dollar increases in the budget, and talk of raising taxes another trillion dollars. What happened is, for some 8 years, there was GDP growth of about 1.2 percent. Mr.…”