Quotes About Legislation

We need a smaller, leaner Washington. It won't happen if we raise taxes without any coinciding reform and serious slashing of spending.

I'm not for raising taxes on anyone - period.

Every American, I think, should be able to fill out their taxes on a postcard.

Certainly, the job of a U.S. senator is to create a climate conducive to creating jobs, which is lower taxes and less government regulation. What Harry Reid has been doing is putting forward those policies that actually put more regulation on business.

Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his own.

What I want to do is make certain that no one's taxes go up. Let's look at cleaning up the tax code.

I do believe that we need to lower taxes on our hard working Iowans immediately.

I want to lower taxes for the middle class.

In addition to reining in spending, taxes, tolls and fees, let's rein in how much the state borrows.

I don't rule out raising some taxes into the future.

I'm paying more taxes inside my company and personally than I'll ever receive from Congress.

An Italy that collects lower taxes, that has well-defined times for the court proceedings, and that has less bureaucracy is good news that reassures the markets.

We have no interest in raising taxes.

The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.

With each new appropriations bill Congress considers, I have to ask myself, 'Is this a good way to spend taxpayer dollars?'

H.R. 5444 provides long-overdue structural reforms and service improvements to the IRS. The legislation codifies the IRS Office of Appeals to streamline the appeals process and to provide fair and impartial determinations for concerns raised by the taxpayer.

I don't want to see any taxpayer funding going towards... a couple that is not married.

I don't know how many ways I can explain this to y'all but I'm opposed to Obamacare expansion in Mississippi because it is not in the best interest of taxpayers.

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

The practice of passing bills to find out what is in them represents a Forrest Gump-box of chocolates approach to government in which the taxpayers never know what they are going to get.

All of my political career, I've fought for the taxpayers.

Honoring George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Michael Brown Jr., and too many other Black people taken from our communities by state violence is at the heart of why we legislate in defense of Black lives - and it's why we lead with an agenda rooted in saving lives.

There are lot of issues we passed out of the House that have gotten not only a lot of Republican support - Tea Party and every group within the Republican conference - but even Democrats.

It is not an overstatement to say that Obamacare was the single most important catalyst leading to the tea party movement.