Has an amendment on the floor under consideration. Would the gentleman yield . The chair recognizes himself and is happy to yield. Thank you, mr. Chairman. After reviewing the bill, i believe that at least for the foreseeable future the 410,000 plus 10 escalator is probably sufficient. I would like to work with the chairman further on defining that so that the safeguards be in place once this bill becomes law but i would ask unanimous consent to withdraw the amendment. Without objection, it is withdrawn. And let me just say to the gentleman, id be happy to work with him. Its important that purpose of the legislation is to assure that american agriculture has the workers it needs to continue to thrive in the United States and not diminish because they can go elsewhere to find laborers and produce Agricultural Products elsewhere in the world so im happy to work with the gentleman in that regard. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you. Are there further amendments to hr 4902 . I have an amend
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Years in the making but when President Trump was elected i think the republican members of congress saw this as an opportunity to try to really drive things this year, 2017. Host we have linked the bill on our congressional chronicle. Just a couple of highlights from this bill. It would reduce the number of individual tax brackets from seven to four, the top rate stood at 39. 6 . It reduces the top Corporate Tax rate from 35 to 20 limiting mortgage Interest Deduction to loan to 500,000 or less and would roughly double the individual and family standard deductions. It also caps state and local property Tax Deduction at 10,000, increasing the increasing the Child Tax Credit from 1000, the 1600 per dollars per child and no longer allows medical expense of property loss deductions. Aaron lorenzo one of the issues that came up we could go in the budget that was issued this date a local Tax Deduction. Some 20 members of the new york and new jersey delegation voting against the budget because
Thank you for being here. As you know, today House Republicans unveiled a bill that raises taxes on millions of middle class families and borrows trillions from the future just to give massive new tax breaks to the wealthy and especially to their friends, Corporate America. The American People deserve real bipartisan tax reform that puts the middle class first, creating good paying jobs and lowers the deficit. This republican plan doesnt do any of that. In fact, its a give away to corporations and the wealthiest. They have bragged about saying they have a sample family that if you make this much money, you get this much tax break. Whats really important to know about what theyre doing is what they give you with one hand they take away with the other. They are raising taxes, again, on millions of middle class families hoping that the American People wont figure it out because theyre going to race this through. We know theres some members on the floor of the house today who are on the wa
Tax reform bill earlier today. He spoke for about one hour. I will make my scintillating announcements about everything in the main course will be served. Gary, let me first introduce you. Y is assistant to the went to American University. Subsequently worked briefly at u. S. Steel. Then it Goldman Sachs in 1990. Became a partner in 1994 and rose up to be the head of the commodities position. And cohead of the Global Securities division. And then ultimately in 2006 became the president and chief operating officer and director. And he is on a tight schedule, so im going to start right now. Thank you for doing this. Im just wondering how much of my bio you memorized. Well, i memorized it a little bit. Pretty good. So, are the egos bigger in washington or wall street . What egos . No egos. None . Neither place. Okay. And have you found since youve become one of the two point men on the tax bill that youve become very popular . All of a sudden people call you and tell you how important the