The states attorney general purpose is about an hour. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Please be seated. I appreciate everyone being here. Mr. Speaker, mr. President , my fellow south carolinians, we are here tonight to address successes, challenges and opportunities, but first as in prior years i would like to recognize those in uniform home we lost in the line of duty in 2023. Sergeant ricky green junior of the South Carolina department of corrections. Deputy jacob eric solomon of Richland County sheriffs office. Officer Matthew Logan hill of the Easley Police Department Lieutenant michael charleswood of the Newberry Police department. Specialist jason read haven South Carolina national guard. Firefighter James Michael mueller of the fire department. Canine agent rico with the state Law Enforcement division. I attended that funeral and many others that i can, and when rico had his funeral, i have never seen so many people from the police academy. There wasnt a dry eye in the place. W
The states attorney general purpose is about an hour. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Please be seated. I appreciate everyone being here. Mr. Speaker, mr. President , my fellow south carolinians, we are here tonight to address successes, challenges and opportunities, but first as in prior years i would like to recognize those in uniform home we lost in the line of duty in 2023. Sergeant ricky green junior of the South Carolina department of corrections. Deputy jacob eric solomon of Richland County sheriffs office. Officer Matthew Logan hill of the Easley Police Department Lieutenant michael charleswood of the Newberry Police department. Specialist jason read haven South Carolina national guard. Firefighter James Michael mueller of the fire department. Canine agent rico with the state Law Enforcement division. I attended that funeral and many others that i can, and when rico had his funeral, i have never seen so many people from the police academy. There wasnt a dry eye in the place. W
The states attorney general purpose is about an hour. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Please be seated. I appreciate everyone being here. Mr. Speaker, mr. President , my fellow south carolinians, we are here tonight to address successes, challenges and opportunities, but first as in prior years i would like to recognize those in uniform home we lost in the line of duty in 2023. Sergeant ricky green junior of the South Carolina department of corrections. Deputy jacob eric solomon of Richland County sheriffs office. Officer Matthew Logan hill of the Easley Police Department Lieutenant michael charleswood of the Newberry Police department. Specialist jason read haven South Carolina national guard. Firefighter James Michael mueller of the fire department. Canine agent rico with the state Law Enforcement division. I attended that funeral and many others that i can, and when rico had his funeral, i have never seen so many people from the police academy. There wasnt a dry eye in the place. W
Recognition between the parties. All time rn be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and majority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Eters, for five minutes. Mr. Peters thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i understand that real tax reform is absolutely necessary. In 2013, the Harvard Business School Published a report that identified the most important priorities to promote American Growth and competitiveness. Two of the eight priorities were tax related. First to simplify the Corporate Tax code with lower priorities statutory owth and rates and fewer loopholes. And second, to reform the taxation of foreign profits so we dont disadvantage american businesses and workers. Many democrats would work with the majority to achieve these progrowth tax reforms. Thats how it worked so well in 1986 under president reagan a
Today. President. Madam president , the matter that is before the senate is the amendment that i have offered, and it simply is that in this tax bill, since the corporate rate is reduced from 35 down to 20 and that is permanent but the modest middleclass tax breaks are not permanent, in seven or eight years, they cease to exist, they sunset. So you want in this tax bill to give permanent, huge corporate cuts from 35 down to 20 , which by the way if the American Corporation is doing business overseas, its basically a zero tax rate, which is an incentive to go overseas, send jobs overseas, american jobs lost. While giving those huge corporate breaks, at the same time it is giving modest breaks to the very people who need the tax cuts. That is, hardworking american families, the middleclass. And then, oh, by the way, in seven or eight years, vamoose, its gone. It goes back up. Its a tax increase. Now, thats simply not fair. Now, this little amendment simply says, go back to the finance co