Quotes About Legislation

At the end of the day, Republican-driven tax reform is not only going to be good for the economy and for growth. It's going to be good for middle-class Americans.

My No. 1 priority is growth in the economy. Tax reform will be our first and most important part of that.

Actually, I'm a strong supporter of comprehensive tax reform.

I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.

I think we can have some tax reform, but that doesn't mean tax increases. We ought to make the, the rates flatter. We ought to get rid of a bunch of those loopholes.

We want to make sure that tax reform doesn't increase the size of the deficit.

The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand.

Tax reform is the legislative challenge of a generation for America. It hasn't been accomplished since 1986, when President Reagan and Congress delivered the most sweeping overhaul of our nation's tax code in American history. 2017 is the year to change that and make history of our own.

Tax reform exists, sort of, as an outline - miles away from being actual passed legislation.

Maybe I should get back to the music-writing phase and write one on tax reform.

Nothing says 'economic growth' like fundamental tax reform.

Members of Congress who want to get things done, they need partners who want to move the ball forward on big issues like fundamental tax reform, on regulatory reform, on putting together a replacement package for Obamacare.

Our tax code is arcane, burdensome and unwieldy. In the years since Ronald Reagan's 1986 Tax Reform Act, the code has gone from fewer than 30,000 pages to more than 70,000.

Good policy usually comes from working across the aisle, and I believe tax reform needs to be tackled with Democrats and Republicans finding common ground.

It is fair to debate how much either bill - Obamacare in 2010, tax reform in 2018 - had or will have an impact on the midterms.

I think the work on tax reform, the work that's being done on regulatory reform is very important. And just having a seat at the table, I think, is so important for business today as we think about what's going to benefit the economy of this country, how we're going to create great manufacturing jobs.

Tax reform has been a congressional priority for decades. It should be a bipartisan issue. I don't know why anyone in Congress would want their constituents to pay more.

We need to stop kicking the can down the road and rethink our entire tax system toward long-term, comprehensive tax reform.

Our current tax system is broken.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is a leap forward to a fairer and less confusing tax system.

My legislation, the Simple Savings Tax Relief Act of 2005, simply eliminates the taxation of interest earned in savings accounts, such as passbook savings accounts or bank certificates of deposit.

Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.

I know a bit about taxation and the remarkable effort that goes in to avoiding it.

Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.