Top 66 Kevin Brady Quotes

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We must cut federal spending - every wasted dollar, eve

We must cut federal spending – every wasted dollar, every low priority program, and every unconstitutional overreach – every day.
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The ability to immediately deduct the costs of capital investments will help employers improve worker productivity and output – which grows Main Street jobs. And with these savings, businesses across the country will have more freedom to grow, hire new workers, and increase wages.
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Dave Camp, in my view, made tax reform inevitable in the sense that he showed you could broaden the base and lower the rates and simplify the code and be competitive around the world and make it more understandable.
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Full and immediate expensing is widely recognized as one of the most pro-growth tax policies around.
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America’s real national security interest in the region is protecting our friend Israel.
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I think it is a mistake to withdraw from Trans-Pacific Partnership because if America abandons the Asia Pacific markets, we’ll lose.
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The Reagan tax reform delivered real fairness, closing loopholes for Washington special interests so that all Americans could keep more of their hard-earned paychecks.
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Our Savior’s birth is the ultimate reminder that miracles happen and often when we don’t expect them.
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I’m not going to risk our precious military resources on an ineffective, unproductive mission.
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Congress must build on the success of the Budget Control Act.
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It’s time to permanently lower America’s tax gate so that the $2 trillion in stranded U.S. profits can flow back into America to be invested in new jobs, research and growth.
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If we were starting from scratch, there’s no question a simple retail consumption tax with protections for those with lower incomes would drive the economy the best and be the simplest to administer.
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Texas is made for trade.
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The Affordable Care Act has hurt more people that it’s helped.
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We’re going to have to find a way to serve our constituents and our taxpayers better and quicker and more accurately with fewer workers. I’m convinced we can do it and we don’t have a choice.
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I’m a strong-and-stable-dollar advocate, and the Fed has been moving dangerously away from that mission.
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As chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee – the chief tax-writing body in Congress – I understand that true comprehensive tax reform is tremendously difficult.
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The harsh reality is that we simply cannot tax our way out of our overspending and debt problem. We need a balanced approach that includes both a stronger economy to generate new tax revenues and bipartisan guardrails, which will help ensure that future presidents and congresses spend within our means.
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One of the most offensive actions by the IRS is its continued unlawful seizures of money and assets of innocent Americans, called civil asset forfeiture.
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I firmly believe Americans are far better off under tax reform than they ever were sticking with this old, messed up, outdated tax code.
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I know we disagree with Mr. Trump on this area. I’m hopeful that we can convince him that making our tax code more pro-growth will make America stronger, but to do that, it’s not enough to simply buy American: we need to sell American all throughout the world.
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Obamacare’s design flaws were not the fault of the American people.
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Americans need health care focused on them, not Washington. They want choices, not more mandates. They want affordable plans with ready access to local doctors and hospitals – not high-priced plans with doctors they don’t know.
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We need a simpler, fairer tax code that protects taxpayers. Not special interests.
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Unlike the American inventions and achievements that have expanded horizons of possibility, our nation’s tax code has become an excessive burden that strangles individual opportunity and economic freedom.
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Inflation destroys savings, impedes planning, and discourages investment. That means less productivity and a lower standard of living.
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We need smarter, 21st-century budget guardrails that would gradually trim the size of Washington in order to spur private investment, create jobs, and boost the income of hard-working Americans on Main Street.
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And I am convinced that a single focus on preserving the purchasing power of the dollar, in effect, guarding against inflation or deflation, actually creates a solid foundation for the greatest job growth and the strongest economy that America can have.
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I’ve spent my whole life before coming to Congress as a Chamber of Commerce manager. What that means is you help start small businesses, help them grow in good times and bad.
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Americans deserve a simple, fairer, and flatter tax code that jumpstarts our economy, helps create jobs, and makes America a leader again.
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The people now trapped in Obamacare did what the government mandated them to do – they complied with the law. They should not be left out to dry.
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Requiring the Fed to focus on preserving the purchasing

Requiring the Fed to focus on preserving the purchasing power of the dollar will create a solid foundation for economic growth.
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South Dakota, like a lot of rural states, small states, there are small cities with a very big work ethic, very common sense approach. That has certainly shaped me.
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In my view, the biggest challenge facing this country is that we are not living within our means. Spending cuts can only get us halfway there.
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We must move aggressively in Asia-Pacific because our competitors like China are moving very swiftly to tie down a regional trade agreement that leaves… our farmers and our workers and our businesses out.
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A stronger global hub at Bush means a stronger economic future for Houston.
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As chairman of the tax-writing House Ways & Means Committee, I continue to be inspired by President Reagan’s 1985 national address to the American people as he challenged them to join him in boldly reforming the broken, complex tax code.
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In 2012, I helped lead the successful effort in Congress to allow states to conduct drug testing of people receiving unemployment benefits.
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As the American people have discovered, soaring rhetoric is no substitute for effective leadership on the key issues facing our nation: jobs, runaway spending, and an exploding government debt.
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Houston is a dynamic, international city shaped by leaders who dreamed big and acted with an eye firmly focused on the long term.
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Tax reform for the 21st century means rewarding hardworking families by closing unfair loopholes, lowering tax rates across the board, and simplifying the tax code dramatically. It demands reducing the tax burden on American businesses of all sizes so they can keep more of their income to invest in our communities.
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I’m absolutely confident – in fact, I’m optimistic that by focusing on quality and innovation in Medicare – that we can save that program for the long term in a very positive way.
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I’ve always intuitively liked the consumption-tax model.
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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.
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My friends and family know I love playing baseball – Little League through college. And every year in the annual Congressional Baseball Game for charity played at Nationals Stadium.
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Longer and more frequent delays for international passengers at Bush will only cede business to Houston’s competitors – and the jobs that go along with it.
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The world has changed. It’s not enough to simply buy American; we have to sell American, sell our products and goods and services throughout this world.
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Under Obamacare – which placed 159 federal agencies, commissions, and bureaucracies between patients and doctors – patients not only face dramatically higher health care costs, they’ve also lost the power to choose the options right for them.
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Urgency creates decision making.
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This turbulent world is far from a perfect place.
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This bill, the Sound Dollar Act, is all about looking forward about the role the Fed should play.
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Our compassion for one another, and our individual actions to help, is what makes our nation – and our community – great.
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I want to give consumers way more choices in health care. Choice and competition always drive down costs better than central control.
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I think NAFTA has been extremely beneficial to the United States, in many ways, but there’s no question after 23 years it needs to be updated, to say the least.
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If we truly want to achieve lasting economic growth, we need our businesses to do more business – and we need them to do it in America.
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It’s just wrong to work your whole life to build up a nest egg, build your own business – you pass away, and Uncle Sam can swoop in and take away nearly half of everything you’ve earned. Can you imagine that? Having to sell off most of your land just to keep it from the government, just to save the house.
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As Chairman of the Ways and Means committee, I am proud to have written about half of the American Health Care Act that passed the House so we can finally provide Americans with patient-centered healthcare that fits your family’s needs.
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I love trade. I love trade. First, it’s economic freedom. It’s the freedom to buy, sell, and compete with as little government interference as possible. Secondly, it’s a jobs issue.
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I’m tired of seeing American jobs, manufacturing, and headquarters forced overseas due to a tax code that works against us.
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