{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://doggett.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-doggett-republicans-are-convinced-donald-trump-golden-ticket-getting", "Rep. Doggett: Republicans are Convinced Donald Trump is the Golden Ticket to Getting their Holy Grail", "2017-11-06", "2017", "2017-11", "Democrat", "House", "TX", "Lloyd Doggett", "D000399", "doggett.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Tax Policy Subcommittee, called the Republican tax bill (H.R. 1) a \u201cjob killer\u201d and urged Americans to learn more and speak out against it. A portion of Rep. Doggett\u2019s remarks in Committee are below and a link to his full remarks follow: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\n\u201cThere is no wrongdoing in which Donald Trump can engage, no insult, no attack on our justice system or our law enforcement, no endangerment of our security, that will cause many of our Republican colleagues to say \u2018enough\u2019 or to speak out about that wrongdoing, because they are convinced that Donald Trump is the golden ticket to getting their Holy Grail. If the American people continue to study the impact of this bill, and speak out, then this great harm can be prevented.\n\u201cThe multinational corporations are not going to be filing their tax returns on a postcard. Under the international provisions of this bill, they have an incentive to build their factories abroad. We are going to see the export of even more American jobs and the outsourcing of those jobs to other countries. This bill basically is a job killer. Its underlying premise \u2013 that if you throw enough money to those at the top, it will trickle down and grow the economy \u2013 has been refuted by almost every economist that has looked at that, including Goldman Sachs. It is essential that we not outsource more American jobs, that we not burden this generation and future generations with more debt.\u201d\nYou may view Rep. Doggett\u2019s full Committee speech here.\nYou may view Rep. Doggett\u2019s full speech on his Motion to Postpone amendment, introduced earlier, here.\nYou may view Rep. Doggett\u2019s statement issued after the release of the \u201cParadise Papers\u201d here.\nThe House Republican tax bill was belatedly revealed on Thursday, November 2, and mark-up of the bill began today. There have been no public hearings on H.R. 1 specifically. On Sunday, November 5, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) released the \u201cParadise Papers\u201d and announced a global investigation of offshore tax avoidance activities by politicians, world leaders, and multinational corporations.\n###\nFollow Lloyd Doggett\nFacebook:\u00a0www.Facebook.com/RepLloydDoggett\u00a0|Twitter:@RepLloydDoggett\u00a0|\u00a0Instagram:@RepLloydDoggett", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://doggett.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-doggett-republicans-are-convinced-donald-trump-golden-ticket-getting"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.6583260837942362, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}