Were going to be very interactive for the next hour or so. I have a few announcements. Aroundse cameras, are the room and they are from cspan television. They are going to take this and show this sometime saturday. Celebritybe a cspan this weekend. Rules about some our townhall. This is a conversation between youth constituents and me, the congressman. This is not a debate between the gentleman in the front row and the lady over there with the american bike teacher. If somebody says something you like, you can apply. Some of you have signs you can hold up saying you agree or disagree, or what ever. Not a problem. This is not a forum to get in a fist fight. You talk to me, and i talk to you. We have a timer. We have everybody who wanted to couponuestion getting a and the duplicate is in this poll. Here, young lady over leslie mcculley, and she is not a paid staffer. We have not prearranged anything. She will pull out the number, i will read it and call it out. You stand up and tell us your name and where you are from and you have two minutes. Then i have two minutes. We will go through as many of these as we can. Cards you handed out can write questions on. Did we do that . Yeah. If you dont feel comfortable standing up in front of god and country and cspan, then you can write your questions. As long as you give us your name, and a way to get back to you. Something like any mel address or street address and we will get you a written answer and within the next two or three weeks. Any questions . I will put this bowl right here. Let me make a brief opening statements. We will get to the fun part. That is the questions and answers. This is my Little Pocket copy of the constitution. I carry one with me when i am on official business in washington and in down here. When i go to schools, give a lot of these away. Amendment number one of the constitution of the United States, which is the First Amendment of the bill of rights. Congress so make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. Or abridging the freedom of speech or the right of the people to peaceably assemble and petition the government for grievances. That is amendment number one. Mostprobably the important, if not one of the most important. Freedom of the press, freedom of religion, freedom of speech. That is why we are here. I have done over 1000 townhall meetings over the net last over the last 30 years. I learned every time, and most of the time i enjoy them. Tonight will be one that i will learn and enjoy. Im a free market conservative republican. I believe in providing opportunity. I am not a Big Government mandates guy. There are certain conditions where the government does need heregulate, and when regulates i want to be as close to the people as possible. Starting with the city, then county, then state. As a last resort, the federal government. That is my voting record over the last 30 something years. Were going to have a good discussion and, with that as an opening, miss mcculley will pick a number. Did everyone that once to ask a question put your number in the bowl . Looks like everybody did. [inaudible] just the last three digits. 020. If that is your number, hold of your hand and he will bring the microphone to you. Nobody . Mm. All right, 021. The lady in the back there. I was beginning to wonder. Mandy. Ame is my question where are you from . Desoto, texas. My question pertains to the tax code changes that the corporations are going to consider. Ok. 2008 Alan Greenspan spoke before the house, and he said circle span did not work. He apologized to the american people. Why do you guys keep rebranding it and reselling it to the public and taking away from the poor and middle class . [applause] rep. Barton ok. First of all, we dont have an actual bill drafted yet on the tax code, but we do have a general proposal that has been out by kevin brady. Proposal, which we dont have legislative language, it reduces the Corporate Tax rights, individual tax rates, tonges the Capital Gains tax half of your ordinary income tax, it reveals the debt tax, estate tax. Its repeals most of the itemized deductions if you are one to itemize your deductions on your income tax return. Except for charitable deductions and Home Mortgage interest expense. Adjustments it has a border called the adjustment tax. Where you get the money to pay for it . On paper, it generates enough revenue to pay for the tax relief for everybody else. It is revenue neutral. [laughter] rep. Barton well have legislative language yet, but when we get it, it will be posted online and you can take a look at it. Ok . Next one. 030. Rep. Barton 030. Lady right there. Dietayor says he is on the and the doctor says he needs to lose weight, so this would good for him. Tell us your name and where you are from. Im amber george from arlington. Spoke to you in mansfield in the last time hall. I drove again today because, as you remember may be, have a preexisting condition. I have crohns disease. Ive a beneficiary of the aca. I enrolled in 2013. I never lost access to care. Costs paid blue blue cross blue shield. I told you last meeting that i have one prescription that, without insurance, would be 3042. Watching tv today, i see that we acatalking about repealing again. In those talks, have been language that would put me in a high risk pool. Highrisk bulls are not health care. Pools are high risk not health care. We should not be pandering and catering to audiences like big pharma. We should not be catering to insurance companies. [applause] thatan american and i know we use the word patriotism and patriots a lot. I think we could agree that they are all great americans. He defined patriotism by saying it does not mean stand by the president or any other political by which he himself stands by the come country. It is patriotic to officially serve the country. It is unpatriotic to oppose him to the exact extent by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic to not tell the truth whether about the president or anyone else, but to tell the truth about health care, lets talk about what americans need and lets protect the constituents and not the big entrance pharma. Thank you. [applause] rep. Barton that shows we are running a fair townhall, because her number got pulled in mansfield and it got pulled again today. [inaudible] rep. Barton well a number was pulled that you used however you got to use it, that is between you and whoever gave it to you. My answer is going to be about the same as it was two or three days ago. The Affordable Care act isnt working. If hillaryng, won we would be trying to fix it. We are just try to fix it a different way. Undere covered preexisting conditions under the Affordable Care act, and you will be covered under a repeal and replace bill. Preexisting conditions will be covered. [inaudible] rep. Barton preexisting conditions will be covered. It, its my turn to talk, you can listen to me. I listened to you. Youre concerned about having coverage for your drug prescription and you are concerned that you are going to have Health Insurance. It is going to happen. To use thechooses highrisk pool and they put you in its, you probably wont even know it. The only way, the reason they are creating thats pool is because we are trying to create a marketbased system that creates lower premiums with the same or better coverage. You want good coverage, at an affordable cost. Say, in order to make sure the premiums go down, the creation of a high risk full is just common sense. As long as you have coverage and your costs dont go up, in fact if you get more choices because youre going to have more choices. We are probably going to have a vote on a repeal and replace bill in the next couple of weeks. When we get ready to have the vote, we will post the language online. Everybody can look at it. Within three days, we will have a vote. [inaudible] i told the truth as i know its. 001. Rep. Barton 001. [indiscernible] know given the hundreds of millions of dollars that you have accepted from big oil and big polluters, how can we be assured that you are doing anything to protect the environment in our community, and particularly, arlington. The barton first of all, statement you made is false. Dimeent accepted one individually from an oil company. I have accepted Political Action contributions and personal contributions on Political Action committees that represent all the companies. And from the people who work for although the companies. Those go to my campaign. It is not hundreds of millions of dollars. It probably is millions of dollars, over 32 years because i have been in congress for quite a while. I represent texas which is an energy state. Economy is aof any sound energy policy. Free markets and Free Enterprise and i have consistently voted that way. As a consequence, the United States has the most Affordable Energy prices in the world. Where the Number One Energy producer, we have great expectation of increasing that production. In all areas, oil, gas, wind, solar, and all the alternative energies. Own inbably holding our terms of coal. [inaudible] rep. Barton i voted for the Clean Air Act amendments, in the early 90s. I simply dont want to be and cost jobs and create an economic perception by being too negative on the energy sector. Next question. 997. Rep. Barton went from 0012997. 001 all the way to 997. My name is bob. I would like to say that i agree with most everything that President Trump has tried to do so far. We have the house, we have the senate and the presidency. I think it is time we have the same done that need to be done. [applause] rep. Barton i agree with that. Those of us in the majority should be held accountable and responsible. We have already talked about the tax issue and energy issue, healthcare issue. The question is, what are we going to do. On some of that, maybe a lot of it, it hopefully will be bipartisan. Some of it will have to be partisan. The healthcare issue is unfortunately one of them. I couldnt agree more. Be,ve waited a long time to have the house, senate, and presidency, and i could not agree more. 980. Rep. Barton 980. Thats sneaky. We will let that go. Snyder. Me is justin i talked to you at your second town all in milford. Rep. Barton tell us where youre from. [inaudible] i asked you about your tax reform. , do have a detailed question but i looked it up and now i want to go into a different question. That you will consolidate texas and lower the top individual income tax rate to 33 . This income tax rate only affects those currently making over 400 and 13,000 or did 13,000. 3,000 . I would like to motive no i dont about believe we should allow that symbol in america with foreignbased parts to fit into this category. The third bullet point, repeal the best tax so that loss of a Family Member is no longer taxable. It would only benefit those with an estate value over 5. 4 million. I also believe this will not affect the average american. You want to cut taxes on Small Businesses by creating a separate low rate of 25 on many. You want to lower the Corporate Tax rate to 20 and shift the territorial system with more competitive rates. I dont understand why you want to cut rates for 20 or corporate businesses but only down to 25 for Small Businesses. You are now making Small Businesses compete with corporations. Rep. Barton thats a fair question. First of all, there are three individual brackets parried the top bracket would go to 33 . The middle brackets would go to 22 . And the bottom bracket goes to 10 or 15 . There are three different individual brackets. Was not talk brackets, show me where your mindset is. That particular sheet of paper which you referred to was put out by the ways and Means Committee. It is my hound out handouts, but we lowered all three brackets. We lower the corporate bracket from 35 to 20. Manufacturedke our products more competitive by reducing that bracket from 35 to 20. We didnt mention that we changed the way we did Capital Gains so that it is now taxed at half of whatever your normal income raisings are carried to use your example, if you are in the 33 brackets and you had a capital gain, it would be taxed at the 16. 5 . If you are in what i think is capitalbracket, your gain would be taxed at 11 . And the state tax repeal, while not too many people will benefit the hundred percent from its, if you are a family farmer or have a Small Business that is familyowned, there are lots of farms and ranches that are worth more than 5. 4 million. That eliminates the estate tax or death tax on those family holdings. I think that is a good thing, not a bad thing. The controversial part of the proposal is the border adjustment tax. , i willing to support it would like a little more information on it, but almost every other country has something similar to it. If it makes our products more competitive, i will be for it. Yes maam. 000. Rep. Barton 000 . Youre going to pass . Ok. 017. Rep. Barton 017, yes maam. Hello. This, iu for doing appreciate that. I work every day with for patients that need Affordable Care act or Something Like it. Someone that wont have a preexisting condition that gives them more charges for them to pay for the premium, also, another thing was, beforehand there were limitations on how much a person could be out. There were patients waiting to get transplants on the Affordable Care act plan and when it came out, they didnt get the transplant because they had preexisting conditions. They couldnt to do anything about the coverage. I know you have addressed this and i think we have to go to the root of the problem. What got us to the point that we have to. People havehese insurance because of the Affordable Care act. Outcome large corporations such andhat Walmart Walmart why dont they do anything about how many parttime employees they can have. They were teaching their employees how to get on medicaid, and they make millions of billions of billions of dollars. They need to look at the root of the problems and i dont think caution goes on to the individual on trying to buy a health care plan. [applause] rep. Barton ok. First of all, thank you for what you do. If you are in the transplants route. They are one of the best in the country. God bless you for what you do. I dont mind answering questions conditionsxisting but it is not a debate that im arguing with you. The republican alternative before the Affordable Care act covered preexisting conditions. The plan that we are going to vote on, covers preexisting conditions. There may be a few bells and whistles differences on how you do it, but im not arguing about that nor is any other republican. We are going to cover it. , fulltime and parttime. That is a market decision that the Management Team at walmart might make ought to make. I happen to think youre are better off, most of the time, if most of your people are fulltime. There are situations, sometimes the individual can only work parttime. Sometimes the Business Model only allows them to be able to hire people on a parttime basis. It is not a decision the federal government should get involved in. In at the level of whoever is doing the hiring. That is not something we should be involved in in my opinion. [applause] 964. Rep. Barton is that funny, we dont have a thousand people here but we are going from zero to 1000. Were going to get to the microphone here. Good evening and thank you for hosting the town hall meeting. Your honor. Im bob originally from venice. Three simple questions. Rep. Barton we will see about that. [laughter] why didnt the Republican Party have plans set to go in january of 2017 regarding health care, tax cuts for immigration, yet the republicans believe that President Trump would lose the election so they werent prepared. Rep. Barton these are simple questions. [laughter] what would it take to get rid of paul ryan as the speaker of the house . [applause] when watching fox news, it appears tobe he be in league with the democrats and i cant tell with these guys if they are democrats or republicans. [applause] ,epublicans control congress why does it appear that the democrats are in charge. [applause] and, as a followup to the question the person before me likebout walmart, it seems parttime employees may limit minimal amount of money and income so that they forapply and qualify government assistance. And drive those parts up. Rep. Barton i dont know how simple those questions were. I think you had about half a dozen rather than two or three. We will take a pop at it. Why werent the republicans ready to go with the Health Care Bill if they want . If we had wanted to, we could basic decision was that you could move at one pace to just repeal the bill. [applause] that, and some of you did, there are lots of people that depend on the Affordable Care act or Health Insurance that would have been left out in the cold. We didnt want to do that. We wanted to take a little more time. We had a Health Proposal that we , andrepared a last year what the speaker did was give and wayshe committee of Means Committee and the Energy Congress committee which im the vicechairman of. We went through regular order and hearings and put together a bill. Its kind is circulated and we had a markup. It went to the Budget Committee and they sent it to a different c