"Whether you realize it or not, I wasn't a big fan of the tax reform, particularly in its initial state because we were making a huge disparity between C corps and pass-throughs."
"Part of my frustration here in Congress is no matter what issue you're talking about... I'm always looking at whatever piece of legislation is being proposed as just another band-aid on top of a dying..."
"I would treat--I would assess income based on cash. Cash base."
"I hate the term tax reform. One of my favorite sayings is all change is not progress. All movement is not forward."
"They raise a lot of revenue because they put it on top of other things."
"The problem we have right now is both sides have I would say abused the reconciliation process."
"Let's try and set the rhetoric, condemn demagoguery aside, and let's really focus on, you know, the areas of agreement."
"the beauty of this scheme is if you were a low-income worker, the way you collect the taxes through withholding, the corporation will pay the tax for the shareholder"
"there is no climate emergency. This 1,600 scientists, led by two Nobel Prize winning physicists declared, there's no climate emergency."
"As we become less and less credit worthy, as creditors look at the United States and say they may not pay this money back."
"we ought to be alarmed about, not about how something that you know I've entered into the record that there is no climate emergency."