Ralph Hall: “I think they would tell me, if they could understand, that they need a date certain Tax Code for this House to do…”

“I think they would tell me, if they could understand, that they need a date certain Tax Code for this House to do something. That is not putting them under the gun too much. I will tell Members what it does, it tells us that we need to go out and come in again with a Code. The sensible part of it is that we are not going out before we come in. The provisions are that we have to come in with a bill, a sensible bill to take the place of the Code before the Code goes out. I really do not see anything pressing about that. It simply says to us, get about your work now, and do not wait until the last day and rush in there and try to get it done. I think it also knocks out estate tax, capital gains taxes, a lot of things that a lot of people want to knock out, but they are waiting to put it with something that is more desperate or tougher to pass. We will get a chance to get rid of those two things now, too. A lot of us have signed onto one or both of the bills. I do not care what bill comes down the line, I think I am a coauthor on it. We need a change.”