Last night as promised. It would incorporate into the mark this morning. They will walk through the modification and members will get an opportunity to discuss and ask questions about the modification. Once that process is complete it will be open for amendment. Before we take these next steps id like to make a few initial comments. I want to thank my committee members. We were a able to include a number of their amendments in the modification and the mark and will be better for it. From the outset e of this process, producing this legislation has been a group effort as i have been joined and ably assisted by the majority members of the committee. I want to thank them and are the hours, days and weeks of hard work that have gone into this process. By producing this modification, we have taken another big step forward for tax reform. So once again, thank all of you for your hard work. Now lets talk about some of the highlights and the modification. Note that while we made some important
Reform bill live coverage on cspan 3. Now to live coverage of the u. S. Senate on cspan2. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. The chaplain will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, our hope for years to come, we offer you a sacrifice of thanksgiving. We thank you for your steadfast love that sustains our lawmakers every hour. We thank you for surrounding our senators with your presence that permits them to dwell in peace. Lord, we are grateful for the joy we all receive by observing the works of your hands, finding pleasure in the beauty of the sunrise and the glory of the sunset. We gaze with wonder at the majesty of the butterfly and the soaring eagle, knowing that the same hands that guide them in flight desires to direct our steps. Generous god, we celebrate your love that provides redemption for humanity. You sacrificed yourself for our salvation. Lord of all, to you we raise this our prayer of grateful praise. We pray in your bountifu
The Senate Finance bill repealing the individual Health Care Mandate added to the tax package. Following his remarks in the senate floor we will hear from arkansas republican senator tom cotton. The democratic leader. I ask unanimous consent consent the corn be dispensed with. Mr. President the republican tax plan even before yesterday would exacerbate income equality at a time when is already spiraling out of control helping the rich get richer and corporations get bigger while the middle class is left stuck in neutral. Many millions of middleclass families would wind up paying higher taxes at the end of the day. 13 million in 2019 and 20 million in 2027 under the senate plan. Thats the wrong approach for our economy. American family deserves tax because it concentrates more of our world at the very top just what the American People dont want that many of those who fund the Republican Party do. Most of my colleagues and most of the American People that isnt enough to oppose the bill a
Good morning, everyone. Welcome back from a two week break. I know you must have missed is terribly. I know i missed you all. So great to see you. Here we are this week. The white house wanted to celebrate the first 100 days, maybe commemorating might be a better phrase to use. It really has been 100 days of failure for this administration outside of the appointment of neil gorsuch as the night member of the supreme court. It took the changing of the senate rules to accomplish. Very little the white house did beyond the nomination itself. We look at all the other failures of achievement and the first 100 days to i do not say this weekly because the American People are the ones that suffer because of a lack of attention and focus on the issues they are concerned about. Nothing in terms of jobs or economy. Nothing to show in terms of health care. Show fory nothing to draining the swamp. My colleagues. About those issues after me. With theto start broken promises that the president has ma
Good morning, everyone. Welcome back from a two week break. I know you must have missed is terribly. I know i missed you all. So great to see you. Here we are this week. The white house wanted to celebrate the first 100 days, maybe commemorating might be a better phrase to use. It really has been 100 days of failure for this administration outside of the appointment of neil gorsuch as the night member of the supreme court. It took the changing of the senate rules to accomplish. Very little the white house did beyond the nomination itself. We look at all the other failures of achievement and the first 100 days to i do not say this weekly because the American People are the ones that suffer because of a lack of attention and focus on the issues they are concerned about. Nothing in terms of jobs or economy. Nothing to show in terms of health care. Show fory nothing to draining the swamp. My colleagues. About those issues after me. With theto start broken promises that the president has ma