Occupation: United States Representative Birth: January 29, 1970
Our two party platforms were emphatic about Jerusalem being the capital of Israel. For the Obama administration to remove this language from the Demo….
Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; go….
We want free trade but we want free trade that is good. We want free trade that levels the playing field..
But just because we can't fix Obamacare doesn't mean we can't start to get rid of its worst features. On Thursday, the House will take up a bill to d….
Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intell….
Let's move forward and fix America's problems..
That's what we do in this country. That's the American Dream. That's freedom, and I'll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the cen….
My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he'd be proud….
We believe we can dramatically improve the way Medicaid works by giving governors more control and flexibility to innovate to make it work for people….
Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups..
Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut here. We're not cutting taxes. We're preventing tax in….
The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here….
The tax code is 10 times the size of the Bible with none of the good news..
We need to stop spending money we don't have..
I think preexisting conditions is a very important feature of any healthcare system..
We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles..
To borrow a phrase from my friend Erskine Bowles on the Fiscal Commission, we are the healthiest looking horse in the glue factory. That means Americ….
I'm as pro-life as a person gets. You're not going to have a truce..
The President didn't offer any clarity in his latest speech about what he would do to tackle our nation's debt before it tackles us and it's still no….
By getting rid of loopholes, you are making the system more fair so people who make the same kind of money pay the same taxes..
Here`s the problem with the tax code. You send your money to Washington and then a few have a special carve out for your business, for your industry,….