Occupation: U.S. Representative Birth: February 14, 1949
Well, when I was a kid, if my father was witnessing something that he thought was particularly outrageous or he was looking at some sort of a questio….
Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries li….
People really have to believe in their tax system. They have to believe that there is an equitable distribution of the burden, but there is also an i….
The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at the very top of the income scale i….
The slogan of the moderate Republican Party is this: we are rich, and we are not going to take it any more..
The number of electrical injuries cared for in hospitals in the US is estimated at as many as 50,000; the cost of these injuries on the US economy is….
Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightni….
We could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of ou….
It is day after day in this institution, borrow money, run up the debt, run up the deficits and then with a straight face say, we are going to repeal….
Fundamentally, I believe that the U.S. can improve its international standing and its national security by expanding trade and strengthening its rela….
We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town..
More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, ….
President Bush is manufacturing a crisis by suggesting that Social Security is in imminent danger. It is not..
Let me announce this to the American people tonight one of the best things about this debate, as a Democrat from Massachusetts, I have proposed elimi….
The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burd….
It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but for the last three Congresses, I have offered a ….
Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its products..
Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade..
The ABA works tirelessly in its efforts involving the first line of defense: the prevention of burn injuries..
Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses..
The Tax Code today is more complicated than ever, and the very people on the Republican side who denounce the Tax Code's complexity are the ones that….