The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.

Hold on to your wallets folks because with the passage of this trillion-dollar baby, the Democrats will be poised to spend as much as $3 trillion in your tax dollars. Taxpayers will be on the hook for spending that will stimulate the debt, stimulate the growth of government, but will do little to stimulate jobs or the economy.

America demands invention and innovation to succeed.

While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here.

We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.

It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy.

I'm not here to say that the government is always right, but when the government tells you to do something, I'm sure you would all agree that I think you all recognize that is something you need to do.