The speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 242 and the nays are 174. The bill is passed. Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the Unfinished Business is the question on agreeing to the speakers approval of the journal which the chair will put de novo. The question is on agreeing to the speakers approval of the journal. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it and the journal stands approved. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The speaker pro tempore will members please take their conversations off the floor. The house will be in order. For what purpose does the gentleman from maryland seek recognition . For what purpose does the gentleman from maryland seek recognition . Mr. Hoyer i ask unanimous consent to speak out of order for one minute for the purpose of inquiring of the majority leader the schedule for the week to come. The speaker pro tempore without objection. The gentleman is recognized. Mr. Hoyer mr. Majority leader, mr. Speaker, i yield to mr. Mccarthy, the majority leader from california. Mr. Mccarthy i thank the gentleman for yielding. I ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Mccarthy on monday, the house will meet at noon for morning hour and 2 00 p. M. For legislative business, votes will be postponed until 6 30. On tuesday and wednesday, the house will meet at 10 00 a. M. On thursday the house will meet at 9 00 a. M. For legislative business. On friday new york votes are expected in the house. The house will consider a number of suspensions next week, a complete list of which will be announced by close of business today. In addition the house will consider h. R. 3043, the hydropower policy modernization act, sponsored by representative Cathy Mcmorris rodgers. This will continue our effort to improve Americas Energy infrastructure by streamlining the ferc licensing project process for hydropower process. Well also consider two good jobs bill. First, the save local business act, sponsored by representative bradley byrne. This will ensure small piss and franchises across america receive fair government treatment rather than confusing regulations that harm workers. Second, the house will consider h. R. 2201, the microoffering safe harbor act, sponsored by representative tom emmer. Part of our innovation initiative, this is a smarter way for entrepreneurs to start new ventures or grow existing businesses. Additional legislative items are possible in the house. If anything is added to the schedule ill be sure to inform my friend and all member. With that, i thank my friend and yield back. Mr. Hoyer i thank my friend for for that information. First i want to start by saying the majority leader and i and four other members of the house had an opportunity to visit both puerto rico and the Virgin Islands last weekend since we had our last colloquy. First i want to thank the majority leader for organizing that trip. And including me on it. It was a an eyeopening trip. The majority leader and i have done an oped which will be appearing at some time on our observations. One of the things i know the majority leader and i had the opportunity to see, we were in marathon, where you had housing that was built after andrew and housing built before andrew. The difference was, after andrew that extraordinary hurricane, the Building Code was change wesmed saw the stark difference etween housing that survived maria and irma, and housing that did not. The difference was of course that the housing that survived was built to different standards after andrew. The majority leader and i discussed this matter along with mr. Bishop who chairs the committee that oversees both puerto rico and the Virgin Islands and i think all of us are convinced it could be penny wise and pound foolish not to build back as florida did to standards that can withstand storms of this type. Sipted to thank the majority leader for his leadership on this issue. The majority leader took the extraordinary effort to climb down a river bank, go across the river, the river was very low at that point in time an then up a very long ladder because people were stranded on the other side and the majority leader went to see them and assure them that we would not forget them. We were the first codell to go to the interior of puerto rico as opposed to simply going to san juan or another large city. So i thank the majority leader for his leadership on that issue. Mr. Leader, let me ask you about tax reform that of course has been the big issue of for some period of time now. But now we have a bill thats been put on the not on the floor yet but was released yesterday. Its clear this bill will cut taxes, in our view, for the wealthy. I dont know the statistics yet what the division is, whether its 8020 as the initial proposal was or perhaps a little less than that, it goes to those other 900,000 in income. In any event, also eliminates ax references the middle class families rely on and we think its going to face hurdles in congress. When does the gentleman expect the bill to be marked up . And i yield to my friend. Mr. Mccar mr. Mccarthy i thank the gentleman for yield, im excited about the question because im excited for this bill. For more than three decades we have waited for tax reform. Many people know the challenge they have is government taking more than they should and the challenge that individuals can raise their paycheck. Ways and means announced theyll start markups next week. I assume and tissue that it will take them probably a week to get through the entire bill, going through regular order, as we do. Then id assume we bring that to the floor right after. Wed like to get this to the American People as soon as possible. Im willing to talk about the bill, im willing to talk about the bill in any different matter because we spent a lot of time working on this. Very first thing thats going to happen for the American Public come january 1, theyll get more in their paycheck. Because what we do, we take the standard deduction, the current law today, a single individual in america, its only the first 6,000 they have are taxfree. Thats going to go to 12,000. For a couple its going to go to 24,000. We take seven confusing rates and make it four. Its about cutting them. Every rate is lowered except the highest one. Then we go and look at how can we make america competitive . We all know, i started my First Business when i was 20 years old. Small business is the backbone of this country. Small businesses work harder than almost anybody else. We lowerer their rate to 25 . Thats the lowest its been in 40 years. Then all this money thats being pushed overseas, they tax too high so people wont bring it back, theres trillions of dollars there, were going to have the money come back and theyre going to invest in america. Now, the name of our bill is tax cuts and jobs act. Just yesterday i was with a company, broadcomm, we went into the oval office, i had worked with this company for quite some time, they started in america. Bell labs was part of it and others. Three kind of Companies Got together. Theyre technology. They were building. They were growing. What they found was, americas tax code was so burdensome on them that for them to compete around the world they became a company that domiciled in singapore. Talking to them just the last month or so, laying out our tax bill, they said, you know what, were so confident in you passing that, that were going to announce were moving back to america. They have 20 billion a year in revenue. They invest 9 billion every year in r d and manufacturing. Those manufacturing jobs we care so much about. So yesterday we were sitting in the oval office, this is exactly what the c. E. O. Said. You know what he talked about . He grew up in singapore he said when i turned 18, the greatest Engineering School in america gave me an opportunity, m. I. T. But my paraphernalias did not have wealth but they gave me a scholarship mr. Foyerer can we have a little order. The speaker pro tempore members will take their conversations off the floor, the house will be in order. Mr. Hoyer thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Mccarthy he comes to america, builds a company, said it broke his heart he had to leave he said he wants to give back to this country thats so good to him. So were creating jobs even before we pass it. So im excited. If i may, i want to do a Little Research for you. So weve taken all the i. R. S. Tax information, i broke it down in a spreadsheet so anyone who wants to know about it, come see me, ill walk you through it. Your district, marylands fifth, 47 of your filers take the standard deduction. 10 theyll be better because of because it doubles right off the bat. Another 11 of those who itemize their deductions wont have to do that anymore. So instead of spending weeks on their taxes, theyll put it on a postcard in a minute. So theyre going to get a higher duh ducks, theyll get more money. That means even before lowering of the rates, 58 of your district is better off from day one. Now in addition, we repeal the alternative minimum tax, that a. M. T. So that cost 13,000 of your constituents in your district an average of 3,750. Thats wiped away. So as we lower all the brackets, well create a great deal of savings for everybody else. Im excited about this. Id love to look forward to work with you on it. Because just as we just passed the chip bill bipartisan and the ipab, with more than 70 democrats on that i think this has been a very good week for america. I yield back. Mr. Hoyer i thank the gentleman, mr. Speaker, for his comments. Talking about ipab, we added 17. 5 billion to the debt. 17. 5 billion. The gentleman did not mention the 1. 5 trillion in Additional Debt that the passage of the tax bill will result in. But he did talk about some people who are going to be really advantaged so i would like to ask the majority leader, will those people who will be van advantaged, or for that matter disadvantaged, have the opportunity to next week testify in a hearing on the substance of this bill. I yield to my friend. Mr. Mccarthy i thank the gentleman for yielding. I think this is an excellent question. So first of all, youre asking about hearings. I caught you yesterday. I caught you on tv yesterday. Youre pretty good. You were asked about hearings. This is what you said. 5 hearing is when mr. Hoyer take the gentlemans remarks down. Mr. Mccarthy a hearing is when you ask the public to come in and say, what do you think . What are your suggestions . How will this impact you . Since taking the majority, you know what anniversary it is this week . When we rolled this bill out it was the seventh anniversary of the republicans winning on that election day for the majority. This is what we campaigned on. Now weve been working quite some time prior to dave camp retired but when he was chairman of ways and means he put out camp proposal. We have been having numerous hearings in this congress that congress. Took us to win the white house and the senate but we kept you are promise. Let me walk you through what we have done. Since taking the majority. We held at least 59 hearings on tax reform with witnesses from all sides on everything from simplification to closing those loopholes we talked so much about together, to creating jobs, accelerating Economic Growth. Thats not to mention the countless town halls and the forums of members held in their districts. Thats what you brought up about hearings. We need further witnesses to burden our tax code . Look no further than just me. I told you when i was 20 when i started that First Business. You know the three lessons i learned in my First Business . I was the first one to work. I was the last one to leave. And i was the last one to be paid. And i remember investing all that i had and it was just a deli, i had six employees,s of early in the morning, the frovent was all glass, here pulled up a little truck from the city. They were knocking on the door two hours before i started. I thought maybe they wanted to give me a key to the city, starting a new business. He wanted to give me a ticket for my sign. I thought that was a little odd. The sign was bring manager people in. Paid more sales tax, paid their salary. I learned the challenges of starting a Small Business. And whats so great about this bill, theres going to be so many more americans who are going to take that risk, start a Small Business and be successful with so many more americans working. So im excited about this. Thats what weve been hearing in our hearing. For all those hearings we had, all those town halls, all those years we fought so hard to get to this point. I think this has been a good week. I yield back. Mr. Hoyer i thank the gentleman for yielding, mr. Speaker. He did not answer my question, however. Will parttime have an opportunity to testify on this bill . The answer is no. No american will have an opportunity to come to a hearing. In 1986, the gentleman from california, the majority leader, was not here. I was here. We had hearings over months, both sides of the aisle, over 450 witnesses testified. Not on tax bills that may have been offered at some time in the future including the camp bill. And when the camp bill, mr. Speaker, was reported, actually, wasnt reported, when it was put on the table by chairman camp from michigan who is now retired, the speakers response was, when asked by the press what are you going to do with blah,ill , he said, blah, blah. In other words what he was saying is all talk. Were not going to do anything with that bill. That bill never saw the light of day. It was paid for, mr. Speaker. It was tough love. Now i didnt agree with everything in the camp bill but i congratulate congressman camp for having the courage to put a bill on the floor that was paid for. Not creating 1. 5 trillion in Additional Debt that our children will have to pay. Theyre not here to testify either. And i dont want to get into really a debate on the specifics. We are going to have a lot of time to do that next week and i intend to do it next week. Talk about Small Businesses being reduced to 25,000 25 . They will be if they make over 500,000. Thats why the nfib is not for this bill, mr. Speaker. Talking about Small Business. They are the spokespersons for Small Businesses. They are not for this bill. But well talk about the substance. But the process mirrors the process for the Affordable Care act. No hearings. No witnesses. Very, very little time for the public or the congress to digest the substance of the bill. Opped yesterday, will be marked up on monday. Thats 96 hours to consider a bill well over 500 pages. Mr. Mccarthy less than 500. Mr. Hoyer mr. Speaker, i asked about process. The reason i asked about process and regular order is because regular order provides for input from the people we serve. The public. About whether the bill is good, bad or indifferent and how well impact them. We are going to debate it here. We represent those, but regular order is hearing from them before we act, not after we act. Yes, were replicating the Affordable Care act. Put on the table, quickly passed, jammed through, sent to the senate and it didnt work, mr. Speaker. And i dont think this will work either, but i was here in 1986, mr. Speaker, when tip bob, l and Ronald Reagan, the republican chair of the finance committee and the chairman of the ways and Means Committee worked together with jim baker, former secretary of state but then secretary of the treasury, worked with us to come up with a bill that could be passed and it was passed, mr. Speaker, with overwhelming votes on both sides of the aisle. And it was the last time we passed tax reform. Under Ronald Reagan we passed a tax cut in 1981. The deficit increased under onald reagan 189 . And under george h. W. Bush, the deficit increased 55 in four years. 189 in eight years. Under bill clinton, the debt increased 36 . George w. Bush, 87 after the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts and we were promised they were going to energize the economy and dynamic scoring would come into 11 30 nd the country a. M. Not creating 1. 5 trillion in Additional Debt that our children will have to pay. Theyre not here to testify either. And i dont want to get into really a debate on the specifics. We are going to have a lot of time to do that next week and i intend to do it next week. Talk about Small Businesses being reduced to 25,000 25 . They will be if they make over 500,000. Thats why the nfib is not for this bill, mr. Speaker. Talking about Small Business. They are the spokespersons for Small Businesses. They are not for this bill. But well talk about the substance. But the process mirrors the no hearings. No witnesses. Very, very little time for the public or the congress to jam the senate and it d 189 in eight years. Under bill cli the debt exploded. Barack obama, just by contrast, inherited the worst economy any of us have ever seen, the worst economy, hemorrhaging over 780,000 per month in january, 2009. And we had to bring the economy out of that deep recession and we invested dollars. But even given all that billion and the 700 bill we passed that george w. Bush which 2 3 republicans opposed and which kept us out a depression barack obama increased the debt by one percentage point more than george w. Bush. So i say to my friend, the reasons for having hearings, the reasons for having experts like mr. Bartlett who worked for george bush excuse me roinled reagan who said tax Ronald Reagan who said tax cuts dont work. I may not be here when we can find this out, this is going to be far above 1. 5 trillion in Additional Debt. And my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren will be exposed to paying that bill. It is a shame, mr. Speaker, that we do not have extensive hearings on this bill. In the house and in the sen