Kevin Brady

Mr. BRADY of Texas

Mr. BRADY of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Messer).

Mr. BRADY of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Kansas (Mr. Estes).

Mr. BRADY of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Rice), one of the key leaders of the Ways and Means Committee.

Mr. BRADY of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to report that families of four, the average family in Oregon's Third District, will see a tax cut of $2,200. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Hensarling), who is the chairman of the Financial Services Committee and a dear friend of mine.

Mr. BRADY of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 30 seconds. I would note that families in Connecticut's First District will see an average tax cut of $3,858 and grow jobs by 11,000 jobs. Mr. Speaker, I rise to enter into a colloquy with the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Curbelo). Mr. Curbelo, you and Resident Commissioner Gonzalez-Colon have been tireless advocates for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. I appreciate the hard work you have done to help our fellow citizens on the island. I agree, this tax reform bill is a good first step, and I look forward to working with you on ideas to best serve the people on this island.

Mr. BRADY of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Harris).

Mr. BRADY of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer).

Mr. BRADY of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I have a note that the average family of four in Michigan's Ninth District will receive a tax cut of over $1,700. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Holding), one of our key leaders on the Ways and Means Committee, who serves on the Tax Policy Subcommittee.

Mr. BRADY of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to report that the average family of four in the Fifth District of Georgia will see a tax cut of $1,484. Mr. Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Bishop), one of the new members of the Ways and Means Committee who has really been a leader for families, small businesses, and industry.

Mr. BRADY of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased that the average family of four in California's Fifth District will see a tax cut of $2,300. Mr. Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Curbelo), who has been an advocate not only for Floridians but Puerto Rico and a number of our families and communities around the country.

Mr. BRADY of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Walker).

Mr. BRADY of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Marchant), a key leader on the Tax Policy Subcommittee.

Mr. BRADY of Texas

Mr. BRADY of Texas. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, Washington is just hilarious. Lawmakers back home tell everyone they are for tax reform, until it comes actually time to do it. Everyone says they want a fairer, flatter, simpler Tax Code, as long as you keep every special interest provision in this big, fat, messed-up Tax Code. Everyone says they want to give people back more of what they earned and get Main Street businesses going, as long as you don't change anything in the Tax Code. As long as the lobbyists win and the American people lose, they are willing to talk about it. House Republicans are actually acting on tax reform for the first time in 31 years. In Washington, they sneer at that family of four back home making $59,000 a year. That is the average household. Under our tax reform, they pay $1,182 less that they keep in their pocket. Washington makes fun of that. That is real money for families. A firefighter making $48,000 a year keeps over $1,300. That single mom working hard every day making $30,000 a year has a $700 larger refund than she gets today. That Main Street startup business working I don't know how many hours, making $62,000 a year--that was my Chamber of Commerce member right there--in that startup business, they keep $3,007 more than they do today. Washington just laughs at that. But it is real money for real people. In my district, a family of four making $90,000--two teachers--keeps $2,176 more every year of their life from this. My friends on the Democrat side now worry about the debt. I remember the first year Democrats took control of the House, they doubled the deficit. The second year, they tripled it. The third year, it went to $1 trillion. It stayed that way until the American people gave the House back to Republicans. They love spending money and raising the deficit when they let Washington grow, but when it is time to grow jobs and paychecks, all of a sudden they are worried about the debt. The truth of the matter is we want to keep this debt and deficits going. Don't change anything. Keep this slow-growth economy, keep spending, and I guarantee you debts and deficits will grow. We are talking about growing jobs, growing paychecks, and getting back to a balanced budget by getting this economy moving in a big way. At the end of the day, it is time to end the status quo in Washington, D.C. Americans deserve a fair, flatter Tax Code, one that closes loopholes and ends special interest deductions so that Americans can keep more of what they earn, so their paychecks can raise and our businesses can compete and win anywhere in the world, especially here at home America. It is time our jobs start coming back to America, rather than watching them go: our jobs, research, manufacturing patents, our headquarters. That era is over, and it starts with H.R. 1, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. We will continue this debate tomorrow, Madam Speaker, so we will continue to deliver tax reform and tax cuts for the American people. Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. BRADY of Texas. Will the gentlewoman yield?

Mr. BRADY of Texas. Madam Speaker, I thank both the gentlewoman and the gentleman for stepping forward and being such strong advocates for taxpayers in a State that taxes its families and businesses, I think, almost beyond belief. Our goal in tax reform is to achieve tax relief for families and individuals across the country, regardless of where you live, and across all incomes, while, at the same time, unleashing the economic engine for American economic growth. California, by the way, under tax reform, is the number one job creator under the new Tax Code. So I agree with the gentleman and the gentlewoman. There are still some areas where we want to make and will make improvements in this bill. If they will work with us to continue to move this process forward, I am happy to commit to working with both of them to ensure we reach a positive outcome for their constituents and families as we reconcile our differences with the Senate. Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. BRADY of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I would note that the constituents in California's 13th District, a median family of four earning $107,000 will see a tax cut of $2,589. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from West Virginia (Mr. McKinley).

Mr. BRADY of Texas. Madam Speaker, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act for families of four in Vermont, making $89,000, will see a tax cut of $2,030. Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Indiana (Mrs. Walorski), one of our key leaders championing for small business. Madam Speaker, I also ask unanimous consent that the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Roskam) be permitted to control the balance of my time.

Mr. BRADY of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I thank Mr. McKinley for his passion about making sure our smaller communities can revitalize and grow and about the role of the historic preservation tax credit in doing that. I commit to working with him and continuing to work with him on this issue because I know the importance of it.

Mr. BRADY of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days within which to revise and extend their remarks and to include extraneous material on H.R. 1, the bill currently under consideration.

Mr. BRADY of Texas. Will the gentleman yield?

Mr. BRADY of Texas. Will the gentleman yield?

Mr. BRADY of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Reichert), chairman of the Trade Subcommittee and a champion for working families.

Mr. BRADY of Texas. Mr. Speaker, Massachusetts will gain 24,000 jobs; families will see a $3,000 increase in their paychecks. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Paulsen), a key member of our committee and a leader in technology and employee stock options.

Mr. BRADY of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Meehan), one of the key members of our Tax Policy Subcommittee and a champion for working men and women.

Mr. BRADY of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Tennessee (Mrs. Black), the chair of the Budget Committee who cleared the path for this progrowth tax reform.