Means over 3000 in tax relief. Texas as a whole, i will welcome the 74,000 new jobs coming away because of tax reform. It also means hardworking americans everywhere will see more in their paychecks and they need it so badly. We all know this quote, will rogers, the difference doing death and taxes is death does not get worse every Time Congress meets. [laughter] it is funny but a perfectly captures how most americans have come to feel about the tax code. With the tax code we have today, americans have seen it get worse and worse. They have seen it become more unfair, more complex and more uncompetitive. When congress met today, americans finally saw something different. They saw us come together and makes our cap make our taxes them better for them and our nation. Today was a major step forward. This is certainly not the last step in our tax reform journey. We still have a way to go and we will continue to listen to the market people. We have always said, this is not our tax code, it
Host in virginia, what happened there . Does that give you any sense of what might happen in 2018. Guest absolutely. A big sense but it seems that the democrats have the wind at their back going into the 2018 election. We are focusing on the candidates who want huge upsets in virginia. Campaign members donated t ig nearly 150,000. We are thrilled to see good authentic people who werent political hacks. Ic we inspire people to come out in the swing districts. One woman won a huge upset. No one expected her to win perch she had a healthcare issue in her family. She iran on medicaid i expansion and she defeated a longtime republican incumbent. She was one of many people who iran for office and one. Host on the independent newspaper out oft britain, this is taking a look at 2018, talking about a potential for weighing the victories in 2018. You see that potential. Guest we see the potential. Thats the key word. Our belief is progressive someone just ride the waves but help increase and cau
Before us. Our work today is a ministerial nature. We are here to combine the legislative recommendations from the finance and the energy and Natural Resources committee and report the combined bill to the full senate. I remind my colleagues that section 310 b of the budget act states when more than one committee of the house or senate is directed to determine and recommend changes, each such committee so directed shall promptly made determinations and submit said recommendations to the committee of the budget of its house which upon receiving all such recommendations shall report to the house its reconciliation legislation carrying out all such recommendations without any substantive revision. This is different from our markup resolution. Were operating under the constraints imposed by the statute. Consistent with past practice of this committee, when considering reconciliation bills, no amendments are in order for todays markup. Members will have the opportunity to amend the legislat
And a picture outside the hearing room taken a bit earlier, as protesters gathered in the hallway outside the Senate Budget committee. Many of them shouting kill the bill, dont kill us. The hearing was interrupted several times as police removed demonstrators from the hearing room. The Senate Budget committee met today, and approved legislation to reform the tax code, and open the Arctic National wildlife refuge to expanded oil and gas drilling. The 521page combined reconciliation bill contains three major pieces of legislation. Tax reform and the individual Health Insurance mandate repeal bill passed by the finance committee and the Energy Committees oil and gas Drilling Initiative in alaska. The measure passed the Budget Committee today on a 1211 Party Line Vote. Prohibits the Budget Committee from substantially changing the proposed legislation thats before us. Our work today is a ministerial nature. We are here to combine the legislative recommendations from the finance and the ene
The presiding officer duly noted. Mr. Lankford mr. President , i want to be able to address this body to talk about an issue that we dont talk about enough, the deficit. Its an issue for whatever reason weve stopped talking about in washington, d. C. Were talking about tax policy, as we should. Were talking about Disaster Relief areas, which we should. Talking about health policies, which we should. A lot of other things. We have stopped talking about debt and deficit. I think thats a mistake for us. See, as the trend has moved, since 2011, at a high point when the deficit spending that year was 1. 3 trillion in overspending in a single year. Since that point, deficits have gone down a little bit each year until 2015. In 2016, our deficit number, thats a single year overspending started going back up. It went up in 2016. It went up again in 2017. Turning the wrong direction. As you will recall and as many people in this body would recall, deficits were a major topic for us starting in