The greatest American exports to China are those yet to come, ... These are freedom of choice, freedom of opportunity.

How does severing economic relations bring about the changes opponents say they want? ... It would be unthinkable for the Congress not to approve this historic legislation.

The House is ... enacting the first major tax bill of this new and historic 'did-something' Congress.

I am really not sure what they have agreed to, ... In all the written material we've been given by our leadership, it does not specify a $35 billion amount.

Fully 93 percent of the tax relief in our bill goes to taxpayers with annual incomes under $100,000, 76 percent goes to taxpayers with incomes under $75,000, ... If ever there was a tax plan for America's forgotten middle class, this is it.

This tax is wrong, ... The real losers are the people who lose their jobs, who rely on the businesses and farms that have to be broken up.

I think it makes it much easier if we're looking at a 10-year number for $35 billion.

We can do it, but we might not be able to do it in the magnitude that we'd like.

I may be the right man for the job, but the job just isn't right for me at this time in my career.