americans needs tax reform, our system is way too complicated, something is wrong when hard work is punished in our country, that is not the american way, it s time you think about all the time, we just finished tax day was on april 15, and you think about all time that americans spent filling out their taxes, that s precious times they could be spending on their families, or working on growing their business, that s what we want them to be focused on. american people have been calling for this reform, and this week we will have a major hearing on tax reform. i look forward to getting it enacted because this is how we grow our economy, grcreate jobs and spur innovation, and i wanted to thank those people who serve in law enforcement in the nation s capital and all around the country.
complicated. something is wrong when hard work is punished in our country. that is not the american way. it s time you think about all time. we just finished tax day on april 15th and all the time that americans spend filling out their taxes and that is precious time that they could be spending with their families or working on growing their business. that s what we want them to be focused on. american people have been calling for this reform. this week we ll have a major hearing on tax reform. i look forward to getting it out of the house, getting it enacted because this is the way we grow our economy, create jobs, spur innovation. i also wanted to say thanks to the men and women who serve us in local law enforcement day in and day out around this capital around this country. as was mentioned, this is police week and it is important that we take some time to thank them and to reflect on those who have given the ultimate
led up to this ipo, this public offering for facebook, many people may step out and say, wait a minute, look where the stock is ending today. the stock ending only up about a fraction of a percent just above that initial ipo offer price of $38. look, many would say it was a messy debut plagued by technical difficulties and not as much demand as everybody thought. we then saw other social media stocks tumble as well in sympathy for facebook. which everybody thought would really pop at the open. and it did. we did see facebook shares pop as much as 18% but clearly they are ending pretty flat on the day. wolf? alison, the whole point is that that $38 number came in at the high end yesterday. that was a number earlier estimates could have come in at $25, $35, $38 was considered pretty big. that was based on investor interest. remember, facebook went on this road show engaging investor interest and there was a lot of investor interest and facebook thought that it could get t