Legislation. This is two hours and 40 minutes. I think we better get going. The committee will come to order. Today the committee has before entitled thel bill tax cuts and jobs act. This legislation is enacted would make a number of important reforms to our nation tax system , and relieve the tax burden on american taxpayers with a focus on middleclass families. Todays markup is the combination of u. S. Law tax reform effort. On this committee, both parties have been engaged in this endeavor, which includes the work of multiple chairman from all sides of the aisle. Of most every member and almost every member has participated in this process. Our former chairman was very much engaged in this effort, as was his counterpart on the grassley. Side, sen. Our Ranking Member has done a great deal of work on this ever, both as previous chairman of the committee and as a Longtime Committee member. Others who have served on this committee, and most of those who are now on the committee, have do
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We are thrilled to have people from all over the country here for our third conference. Dedicated to improving the lives of americans from every background and every walk of life. As you can tell from todays agenda we strive to advance progress progressive values on nearly every possible front. We have an incredible line up of speakers. Many are activists and advocates fighting to create grass roots chains that may shape the country for decades to come. Unmistakable resolve. Millions have flooded our streets, our airports and town halls in solidarity and in protest. More people are taking Political Action than at any point in my lifetime. Yet while we celebrate that Political Action. We also recognize an undeniable truth that we are gathered here today at an extraordinary moment at our nations history, a time when fore actors seek to disrupt our political system and even free elections which served as a basic foundation of our government. When the president openly interferes with an in
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Im going to read you a paragraph, just in case any of you wandered in without actually checking your program or the door, and you can guess what that paragraph what this panel is about. It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than the peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest to our hearts, for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples and shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free. To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when america is privileged to spend her