Paul Ryan: “I have long known about the gentleman from Illinois' work on repealing the marriage penalty. He is the reason the…”

“I have long known about the gentleman from Illinois' work on repealing the marriage penalty. He is the reason the marriage penalty is repealed in this legislation. He deserves the credit for that. And the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Hulshof) who is my lead partner on this bill is the leading advocate for agriculture and tax policy and helping farmers, in Congress, I would add. I want to thank him for allowing me to join him in proposing this legislation and being his coauthor on this legislation to make this tax cut permanent. This tax bill, which we all worked very hard to pass, the President proposed, we worked on it in the Committee on Ways and Means, we passed it bipartisanly through the House, through the Senate and got it signed into law, this tax cut fixes four big inequities. It brings fairness to four major issues. As the gentleman from Illinois has championed, it brought fairness to the issue of the marriage penalty. It reduced and repealed the marriage tax penalty.”