mr. levin correct then when he called this process a mockery of the committee and essentially put us under authoritarian rule. while i have now reviewed that surprise amendment's and the joint tax analysis of it. it is a $157 billion gift to multinational tax dodgers, particularly the big wall street banks and the koch brothers who have lobbied against it. $127 million of the total $160 billion cost of this amendment number one presented in -- presented from secret endefrz and presented without anyone to ask about its contents other than mr. barthold on the technical issues, $170 billion to tax attorneys to find ways to dodge things. what we see is that 95% of the republican base erosion promises in the original bill have now been eroded by them in amendment number one. mr. reed, i'm not saying to you and your colleagues that have worried that your votes today about casting one vote after another that your constituents will oppose don't care about people. i believe you do care about people. it'

mr. levin: on average. is it possible to between -- those between 15 -- 50 and 100,000 would be paying less depending on deductions? mr. barton: re: looking at the table? mr. levin: yes. andbarton: between 50 100,000. on average, 2023, our analysis shows tax reductions on average 200,000 --,000 and $200,000. mr. levin: individually the change in taxes for those people, it is possible they would be paying more taxes depending on their deductions, right? becauseon: as averages of the substantial changes in it underlying legislation, may be substantial differences across different taxpayers. mr. levin: the answer is really yes to that. depending on their deductions. i just want to say i raise this because the house speaker said the focus is on middle-class tax relief. onuote, "the focus is directing that tax relief to the people in the middle, and the people who are trying to get there, and that is why we put our emphasis on that tax relief for those people who are in the middle." this distribution table shows

mr. levin, you are recognized to speak on the amendment. >> yes, thank you, mr. chairman. the problem is, you say you'll continue to work with us, but then you have a bill that deletes the provision. and that doesn't work. i mean, it doesn't make any sense. i was going to bring up the electrical -- electric vehicle tax credit today because it's been so important for renewable energy and so important to begin to move away from the present. i decided not to do it because i think you would vote it down, my amendment. i didn't want the precedent of your voting it down while at the same time you might say you'll work with us. mr. blumenauer's passion really stems from the belief that we need to have some limited role of government to try to change the way energy works in this country. that's what you're doing. and you then say it's necessary to act the way you did in your bill because you need the money for your overall bill, but you're sacrificing policies that are so vital. so, again, i didn't bring up the electric vehicle tax credit because i was afraid you would say you'll

we're joined by mr. levin and mr. kind and mr. welsh, mr. levin i have to ask you too, in your serving on this committee has there ever been a bill of this magnitude or proportion that's been brought out without a public hearing? without expert witnesses? mr. thompson had a raging fire in his district that you heard him from his own lips what it did, how it devastated sonoma and napa valley and no hearings. is there a precedent for this? mr. levin: i don't think so. mr. neal has spelled out, and you have, the atrocious approach here, so i think we can sum it up, the process has been terrible. the proukt is worse. -- the product is worse. what happens when you have a terrible process. mr. larson: mr. kind stood up and talked about the fact the other side who claimed to be deficit hawks, all of a sudden, they are an endangered species. i don't know if the the gentleman from wisconsin wants to expand on that and further ask the gentleman from california and i yield to him. mr. thompson: reclaiming my time. and thank you for drawing attention to

mr. levin. >> i'm going to yield but i'm glad we have had this discussion because you didn't listen to what mr. bart hold said. he said the upper 50%. not the upper 1%. in the upper 50% are lots of middle class taxpayers. you totally don't listen. the hypocrisy isn't on our side. we talk about the upper 1%, or 5%, and the benefits in this bill in virtually every respect, whether it's alternative minimum max or whatever, goes to the very wealthy but the upper 50% doesn't include -- aren't very wealthy in many cases. and we pointed out what mr. bart hold said to us this morning, that there's going to be a tax increase. and we have it in this -- i will just repeat it. 24.6% of the taxpayers between 75 and $100,000 will see a tax increase. 21% between 50 and 75% will see a tax increase. and it gets even worse in 2025. that was 2023. and the problem you face is is that a lot of the people that you represent and that i represent are in the top 50% but not in the top 1% or 5% or 10%. and so that's the

i thank you very much for yielding. >> i thank you, mr. levin, for bringing further clarity to this discussion and i thank mr. kind who i associate myself with in my comments and at the beginning he -- he talked about his amendment as being what's fair is fair and my grandmother used to have a saying what's good for the goose is good for the gander, but what we see in mr. kind -- the reception to mr. kind's amendment is, no, that's not the case because this bill has been distorted and weighted where it takes money from states and people in the middle class in states and transfers it to major corporations. so mr. kind has said, well, let's balance that off. why is it that it's fair to take a s.a.l.t. deduction away from people who itemize their deductions but still let corporations keep it. mr. neil responded by saying, come on, how can you further along with that also further weight it by getting rid of the amt tax and also getting rid of the estate tax as well? and so it becomes a very lopsided argument that mr. kind is trying to bring clarity

mr. levin, you're recognized to speak on the amendment. mr. levin: there's really nothing complicated about what you've been doing. don't believe the rhetoric or the proper and goa. there's zero bipartisanship in this -- propaganda. there's zero bipartisan in this bill. zero. and when you have talked about that, it's been a veneer. this bill does pick winners and losers. the big winners are the very wealthy and some corporations. the losers are the middle class and the rest of america. so don't keep saying that everybody's going to get a tax cut. that's not true. there may be some slight modification, but still many, many tens of thousands of taxpayers will not get a tax cut and the main tax cut is going to go to the very wealthy . the speaker said at the beginning, the focus is on middle class tax relief. the focus is on directing that tax relief to the people in the middle. and the people are trying to get there. and that is why we put our emphasis on that tax relief for those people who are in the middle. that is simply not true about this b

mr. levin, yes. mr. lewis, yes. mr. doggett? mr. doggett, yes. mr. thompson? aye. mr. larsen, yes. aye. umenaur, mr. kind? mr. kind, aye. cral, yes. mr. davis? aye. ms. sanchez? aye. mr. hug insurance. mr. higgins, aye. ms. sewell, aye. ms. delbini, aye. ms. khu? aye. mr. nunes? mr. smith of nebraska? mr. smith, no. r. marchant? ms. black? r. relieved? r. mean. erbello? mr. crowley? chairman brady? >> no. >> chairman brady, no. >> ms. sanchez? how has ms. sanchez recorded? >> ms. sanchez has recorded as yes. >> show mr. mean recorded? >> mr. mean is not recorded. mr. mean, no. >> how is ms. black recorded? >> ms. black is not recorded. ms. black, no. >> how is mr. kerbello recorded? >> he's not recorded. mr. kerb be olle, no. >> mr. reed? >> mr. reed is not recorded. mr. reed, no. mr. chairman? >> the clerk will report the vote. s. 15 yays, 22 nay >> the amendment is not agreed to. >> mr. chairman? mr. chairman? >> ms. sewell, for what purpose? >> point of person privilege. >> granted. >> in li

>> yes, mr. levin. >> if there is a manager's amendment, a second one, how much time in advance will we have to see it? >> so we will follow regular order in the committee rules which is to offer it, have an opportunity to fully debate it among our members before it is voted on. >> so we -- it could be given to us without any advance notice? >> as the amendments today were given to us as they have in the past, we will strictly follow the committee rules for sub submitting and debating any amendments. >> let me at least ask you i'm not talking about suggesting regular order. >> well, we do want to follow regular order. >> i think we do, but regular order doesn't prevent in a manager's amendment, especially if it's extensive and has some new elements as was true last time, it doesn't prevent our having some time to digest it and if we don't have time, will you give us time to recess democrats so we can discuss it? >> i will consider that request, but i will tell you we will continue to hold to the regula

mr. levin's, mr. chairman. >> didn't the gentleman yield? >> look, the a.c.a. process was very different. you didn't like the bill, but we didn't throw these things at you. we had hearings. we had meetings. we considered this seriously. you didn't like what we were going to do, but we didn't just throw things at you at the very end. you had yts of what was just nonsense. you had ideas what was in the bill all along. and now you just throw this at us, and you need introduce each one of these separately and ask, so we can ask questions about each of these. you make a mockery out of this committee. a mockery. and you know it. you make a mockery out of this committee. and why are you doing this? why are you doing this? you don't even talk to mr. neal and to ranking member and give this to him a day in advance. what are you afraid of? you're determined to pass -- i haven't finished. >> the gentleman controls the time. >> you're determined to pass a bill because you haven't done anything of importance all this year. you are desperately looking for something to pass.

very religious one and that see you in that season i would like mr levin say to go get the two delegations the c.d.u. c.s.u. we thank. everyone for your we'll continue wearing these negotiations for the past four weeks insults it wasn't it that's your required a huge amount of dedication a huge amount of you can feel it when someone in front seat you and sees through the delegations of the c.d.u. and the c.s. you know so most people know you love america accomplished this with a great amount thank you thank you thank you thank you transformer thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you you thank. done going to this concert and. you tell the chancellor is is the final say that was the german chancellor angela merkel and the bavarian leader of the c.s.u. addressing the press after the break down and german coalition talks when the pro-business f.d.p. party left just an hour or so ago we're going to go live now to our correspondent hans bronze who is standing outside the building where the talks have been taking place joining us now with the latest hans let's dive in how much

mr. levin: additional minute. mr. kind: it was an initiative that the president was interested in trying to address. again, yet, nothing is being done. this legislation, much to do about nothing because there is nothing pending and nothing would be pending according to c.m.s. until 2021. we are wasting time and opportunity to address the real problems in finding the real fixes that are needed in the health care system. and i'm confident there is bipartisan overlap having worked with my colleagues on the committee and across the aisle on many of these measures that i mentioned here today. i encourage my colleagues to vote no and it keeps an eye on riseicing costs, congress needs to take future action if the rate of growth starts spinning out of control. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from minnesota is recognized. mr. paulsen: i recognize mr. rothfus who is a tireless advocate on these issues. mr. rothfus: i rise today in strong support of h.r. 849 the protecting seniors access to medicare act. the

. >> mr. levin. >> t y -- thanks. "-- for the term >> i think today we have heard the term "middle-class" more than any other time. to rain on the parade, want to go through. of the distribution analysis, the overall showsbution for 2027, it 20,000,ase in taxation 30,000, right? results hurt e-40, each a tax decrease of only $443 million. is $36 those above, it million. i read that correctly, and do i not? >> yes. distribution affect, distribution chart, it shows for 2018 with the repeal, that there saved for31 billion almost allurns and $200,000 income annually and above, correct? am -- mr. i think i levin, i think you are referring to some information other members do not have before them. >> i asked that this be placed in the record. >> my recollection is about 4.6 oh you taxpayers subject to the -- -- >> i do not have a copy of the analysis. >> i am just reading from the analysis. the president falls within that category. pass-through's, we have not been able yet to give us the distribution tabl

>> mr. levin. >> let me just add a word, you've soldiered on as we know when there were many family matters that you had to attend to and all of us have tried to wish you as well as we could, and i think you and i had just a brief period working directly together but i think all of us have the greatest respect for you and your determination to carry on even when there were family challenges, so we will miss you. and, by the way, we'll mishearing about your blue collar roots. >> mr. chairman? >> mr. louis, you're recognized. >> mr. chairman, chairman, tiberi, i want to thank you for your friendship, thank you for your years of service. i had an opportunity to meet your lovely children on the floor. they're wonderful. they're beautiful. they're really in your image and long before i ever dreamed of being a chairman, you always called me mr. chairman and i called you mr. chairman, and maybe we can get together and do something together, so thank you. >> we'll have plenty more time mr. chairman for us

>> mr. levin, i think you're referring to some analysis that i have provided to you that the rest of the committee don't have before them. you said the amt. >> i don't have a copy of the analys analysis. by the way, the president falls within that category. pass throughs, you haven't been able yet to give us a distribution table, but we have discussed this before. and as which discussed it, when you look at the distribution table a-9 from this document called overall view of the federal tax system, it shows that if you look at schedule c and e and almost all of the pass through money is in those schedules, right? >> mr. levin is looking at the document jcx 1717. and table a-9 in that document provided a distribution by our income categories of where age income falls and where dividend income -- >> i have just limited time. i would ask this be put in the record. >> happy to make sheure that al the members have a copy of that. >> and almost all the pass through money would be reported in schedule 3

mr. levin. yes. mr. lewis. mr. lewis, yes. mr. doggett. mr. doggett, aye. mr. thompson, mr. thompson, aye. mr. larson. mr. larson, yes. mr. blumenauer. mr. blumenauer, aye. mr. kind, mr. kind, aye. mr. pascrell. mr. pascrell, yes. mr. crowelly. mr. crowley, aye. mr. davis, mr. davis, aye. ms. sanchez. ms. sanchez, aye. mr. higgins. mr. higgins, yes. mr. sewell. ms. sewell, yes. ms. delbene. ms. delbene, aye. ms. chu, ms. chu, aye. chairman brady. chairman brady, no. mr. chairman. >> record the vote. >> 16 ayes. 24 nays. >> the motion to postpone is not agreed to. you're recognized for a technical description of the amendment. again, i asked our members hold their questions until after his presentation. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and members of the committee. you have before you several documents prepared by the staff of the joint committee on taxation, jcx-50 which describes the underlying legislation, and jcx-48 describing the modifications made in the amendment. you also have supplemental information. our revenue analysis and distribution analysis. there are many changes

mr. levin no. mr. lewis no. mr. doggett no. mr. thompson no. mr. larson no. mr. blumenauer no. mr. kind no. mr. pascrell no. mr. crowley no. mr. davis no. ms. sanchez no. mr. higgins no. ms. sewell no. ms. delbene no. ms. chu no. chairman brady aye. mr. brady: the clerk will report the vote. 24 aye's and 16 no's. the amendment is agreed to. the question is now on the adoption of the amendment in the nature of a substitute as amended. all those in favor signify by saying aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it and the amendment in the nature of a substitute is agreed to. i'll now recognize mr. johnson for the purpose of offering a motion. mr. johnson: mr. chairman, i now ask the committee favorably report amendment 1 to the house of representatives. mr. brady: the question is on favorably reporting the bill h.r. 1 as amended. all those in favor signify by saying aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the motion is agreed to, and h.r. 1, as amended, is ordered favorably reported to the house. the clerk will call the roll.

mr. levin, yes. >> mr. lewis, yes. mr. thompson, i. mr. larson, yes. mr. kind, i. mr. davis, i. ms. sanchez, i. >> mr. higgins, yes. chairman brady, no. clerk will report the vote. >> the motion is not agreed you are recognized. i asked her members hold their questions until after his presentation. >> thank you, mr. chairman and members of the committee. you have before you several documents prepared by the staff of the joint committee on taxation. they describe the underlying bev modifications made by the chairman's amendment and the nature of the substitute. you also have his supplemental information, our revenue analysis and distribution analysis. there are many changes in this legislation, and i will try to give an overview of the number of important points. on the individual income tax, hr one would change our system to provide that there be for tax brackets of 12%, 25%, 35% and 39.6% applicable to ordinary income. in general, the tax rates applicable to capital gains and qualified get div

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let's go to the now with the former america london ken livingstone that mr levin thinker to have you on the program now how does this latest move correspond with the principle of free speech. well it clearly doesn't but there's been a sustained campaign against our team now across much of the west it here in britain as well denouncing r.t. is biased i'm pro russian and there's two basic tracks here and country i don't know any me here around the world stage which i'm denouncing is own government but why i find out i tend to switch between watching b.b.c. news here and then going to the r t channel to get a different take on the news and it's quite interesting on our british television this endless stuff about the war in syria linking it to russia but aiming putin and so on for supporting asset but then the a mention of the fact that britain is supplying arms to sound the arabia which is using them to bomb innocent civilians in the amman has put a blockade which is leading to hundreds of thousands of children starving to death and barely a mention of that because that's seen as a pro

mr. levin, you're recognized to speak on the amendment. >> yes, thank you, mr. chairman. the problem is you say you'll continue to work with us. but then you have a bill that deletes the provision. and that doesn't work. i mean, it doesn't make any sense. i was going to bring up the electrical -- electric vehicle tax credit today because it's been so important for renewable energy and so important to begin to move away from the present. i decided not to do it because i think you would vote it down. my amendment. and i didn't want the precedent of your voting it down while at the same time you might say you'll work with us. mr. blumenauer's passion really stems from the belief that we need to have some limited role of ghost overnment to try to ch the way energy works in this country. that's what you're doing. and you then say it's necessary to act the way you did in your bill because you need the money for your overall bill but you're sacrificing policies that are so vital. so again, i didn't bring up the electric vehicle tax credit because i was afraid you'd say you'll co

mr. levin: thank you, mr. neal, for all your work. the republican tax bill is built on massive deception. a the de-- the deception is, as the speaker put it, quote, the focus is on the focus is on middle class tax relief. that is simply not true. as a nonpartisan joint committee on taxation said, roughly one out of every four americans with income between $50,000 and $100,000 would pay higher taxes, higher taxes in 023. far overshadowing the $1,000 for other families. $1 19, those earning over million will get an average tax cut of $73,000. last-minute ied in desperation, the wealthiest would receive 90% of the new tax break for so-called pass-through income. another $1 million deception is that tax themselves.or on this some people may have been in the past fooled once. fewer twice. but themselves. on this none thrice. a further deception is exploding the national debt to $1.7 trillion will disappear and promotes growth. not only is this a 180 degree republican turn, but it threatens medicare and other critical programs and will wors

thank you very much for yielding yielding. >> i think mr. levin for bringing further clarity to this discussion and i think mr. kind whom i associate myself with my comments. the beginning he talked about his amendment as being what is fair is fair in my grandmother used to have a saying what is good for the goose is good for the gander. but what we see in mr. kind of the reception to mr. kind of amendment is no, that's not the case because this bill has been distorted where it takes money states and people in the middle-class states and transfers it to major corporations. so mr. kind has said let's balance that off. why is it that it's fair to take the salt production away from people who itemize their deductions but still let corporations keep it? mr. neale responded by saying, on, how can you further along with that also further weight it might getting rid of the amt tax and also getting rid of the estate tax as well. and so it becomes a very lopsided argument that mr. kind is trying to bring clarity to by saying what is good for the goose is g

mr. levin: and we'll keep doing it. now you're going to yield to another champion, how many years have we worked on these issues? don't say, it's a long time. mr. hoyer: i now want to yield to my friend from connecticut, the former chairman of the democratic caucus in the house of representatives, and one of the very senior members of the ways and means committee, who s been very focused on sound tax policy, on policy to save social security for generations yet to come, and who is one of the more responsible leaders in this house, and i yield to my friend, john larson. mr. larson: i thank the democratic leader and i thank my colleague from michigan for joining us here. as you stated at the outset, this is a very dangerous bill and a very dangerous precedent, for this body and the other body and for congress in general. it was lincoln who said a house divided cannot stand. and in this bill, when you pit the sick against the well, the poor against the wealthiest 1%, blue state against red state, small business against larg

mr. levin, you're recognized. >> thank you. mr. chairman, it's really important that we're discussing this. mr. roskam has, i think, given a rather subdued argument. and i think -- i know. i thought you would chuckle at that. but you know, we should be discussing this issue at length in a full hearing. and the problem with what you have done in your amendment is it's likely to make it worse. let me just mention the extent of this problem. it was in "the new york times" yesterday. and it talked about these tax strategies. and here's what it says. u.s. multinational firms are the global grant masters of tax avoidance schemes that deplete not just u.s. tax collection but the tax collection of most every large economy in the world. these tax strategies, i now quote, like the ones used by apple as well as amazon, google, starbucks, and others, cost governments around the world as much as $240 billion a year in lost revenue. $240 billion a year. according to a 2015 estimate by the organization for economic cooperation and development. an

mr. levin, if i could tell you that for 75 cents a week i can improve the education and enjoyment of your family, how could you possibly say no? i would do the same thing in my dad's liquor store explaining why they needed to buy an expensive bottle of wine. - right? - when does it, uh, change from buying stuff to becoming wealthy? i would read books about ted turner. i would read books about famous entrepreneurs. harvey: when you were a kid, you start reading about ted turner - saying, "i could be a guy like that." - yeah. yeah, absolutely. and that's why you were reading those books? - yeah. - they were inspiration. they were definitely inspirational. it was like, "why not me? why not me? why can't i do this?" when you were in junior high, maybe, you were a, um, an overweight stamp collector. - pretty much. - were you bullied? a couple of times. i had great friends, but yeah, i remember one time getting punched in the stomach and not responding. i remember one time playing pick-up football an

mr. levin you're recognized to speak on the amendment. >> well, i think it's good, mr. chairman, that we're bringing some passion into this. the previous speaker speaks with passion, so i hope you'll understand if we speak with passion. the purpose of this amendment is to spotlight what this is all about. it's been said that mr. bartow talked about every group on average benefited. when you go beyond the averages, it's very clear this is the opposite of a middle class tax cut. the speaker said the focus is on middle class tax relief. the focus is on directed tax relief to the people in the middle and people who are trying to get there. that is why we put our emphasis on that tax relief for those people who are in the middle. when it comes to amt, it's the opposite. when it comes to pass through, it's the opposite. when it comes to the estate tax, as we discussed yesterday, it's the opposite. as we have new data, it also shows as to the individual taxpayer, it's also the opposite. we asked yesterday for there to be a breakdown in terms of these income categories. so this

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randy levine, the new york yankees to a friend of donald trump, know very well as a friend of mine came out with an op-ed saying mrident, this bill is horrible. here's the reasons including getting rid of the state and local tax deduction, but none of tax cuts for small businesses to another tax cuts for the corporations in congress is screwing you over. congress is doing you wrong here. you see that playing out increasingly politically that because he was so hands off, and they say you've got to get in now and fight for a few things. neil: i wonder whether it's too late. >> the president has been able to do that on big issues to kind of sit back and say the better pass this but if you don't it's your fault and mitch mcconnell charlie: it -- neil: in other words if this were to fall apart you could use this guide, there's a reason for the president to say. >> i don't think trump's base cares the tax code if you think about the base. neil: he's not going to blame himself. transfer of course not. he will just blame congress. neil: probably blame you. transfer do whatever you want with me. i don't care. his base does

mr. chairman. >> all right, rob, good luck. steve: meanwhile, straight ahead, filed for divorce from arnold schwarzenegger years ago. but guess what? they're still married. why is that? tmz harvey levinhich didn't quite cover the steinway. but what if he'd met pure insurance? owned by members. he'd have met: lisa, your member advocate. who'd introduce him to gustav, a temporary address, and help him get tickets to the mozart festival. excuse me, grant likes beethoven! uh, the beethoven festival. pure. love your insurance. >> good morning, everybody, i'm bill hemmer. a lot on the line. a nuclear north korea, a possible meeting with putin. what's at stake as air force one taxis down the runway? and what's in the tax cut for you? we'll ask that today. democrats are saying their own's party nomination process was rigged. what are they about it? we'll see you in six minutes when sandra and i see you in america's newsroom top of the hour. friday. abby: all right. well, he is one of the most fascinating figures in america from bodybuilder to actor to governor of california to the center of an affair. steve: and nothing is off limits with governor arnold schwarzenegger when he sits down with