newsmakers return guest this week is congressman kevin grady of texas. he is joining us from houston where it is much warmer than washington, d.c. he is just returning from washington where he has met with members for the new tax code rewriting and the health care act. thank you for being with us, mr. brady. tolet me introduce you reporters. rachel is on newsmakers and richard ruben of the wall street journal is making a return. we will start with taxes. richard: when you were here this week, meeting with republicans home, on taxes, what did you accomplish? what did you come out with? rep. brady: we had several very good days. america voted for change. we have a new president who wants to make america competitive again at home and around the world. tax reform is key so we focused the whole day on our bill to promote the tax code. focusing on how to create more jobs in america. how can you eliminate any incentive for american companies to move there jobs or headquarters overseas. code soa tax competitive that the best place to sell to america and the best

watch on demand or listen on the c-span radio app >>> return guests is congressman kevin grady of texas, joining us from houston. mr brady is the chairman of the house, ways and means committee, and returned where he met with the members talking about strategy for the new session in january. with a focussed on tax reform, code rewriting, and the health care act. thank you for being with us, mr brady. >> thank you. let me introduce you to the reporters asking questions. rachel is with politico observing congress, and richard reuban, tax policy reporter with the "wall street journal", making a return. we'll start with taxes. richard, you are first. >> you were here meeting with house ways and means and republicans after the rest of republicans went home. what did you accomplish, come out of that meeting with that you didn't have going in? >> we had several very good days. look, america voted for change. we have a new president who wants to make america competitive again. tax reform is key to that. we focus the first day on the tax code. focussing on how to treat nor jobs in america. how d

congressman kevin grady of he is the chairman of the house ways and means committee which taxes policiesn congress and he is just returned from washington where he has met with members to talk about strategy ,or the new session that begins a special focus on tax reform and on the health care act. thank you for being with us. rep. brady: thank you. >> let me introduce the two reporters. rachel is returning to newsmakers this week. and also, from the wall street journal, making a return. richard, you are up first. >> you are meeting with the house ways and means republicans after the rest of congress had gone home. what did you accomplish? what did you come out of that you didn't have going in? we had several very good days. america voted for change. we have a new president to wants to make america competitive again. tax reform is key to that. so we focused a whole day on the bill to promote the tax code. focusing on how to create more