{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://doggett.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-doggett-trump-hill-republicans-thanks-my-billion-dollar-tax-breaks", "Rep. Doggett: Trump to Hill Republicans, Thanks for my Billion Dollar Tax Breaks", "2017-11-16", "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, delivered remarks on the House Floor in opposition to Republican tax bill H.R. 1, ahead of its scheduled vote today. You may view Rep. Doggett\u2019s full remarks here. Rep. Doggett said:\n\u201cThe promise of tax reform has degenerated into little more than a scam to aid tax dodgers.\u00a0While public attention is diverted to scandal in Alabama, Republicans rush through this sham of a tax bill, developed in the dark with lobbyists, before most Americans realize what is about to hit them in the face.\n\u201cInstead of more jobs at home, Republicans create a giant, new, gaping loophole to ship even more jobs abroad.\u00a0 Even Speaker Paul Ryan\u2019s home-state Republican Senator, Ron Johnson, concedes that under this bill\u00a0\u2018there will be a real incentive to keep manufacturing overseas.\u2019 Hardly a surprise, since President Trump\u2019s Wall-Streeter designated to run this show, was just identified, personally, from leaked Bermudan documents, as a past executive of not one, but 22 island tax-paradise shell companies.\n\u201cMeanwhile, another loophole, carried interest, that flows to plutocrats like Donald Trump\u2014that\u2019s the very injustice he promised last year to stop \u2013 will keep flowing right into their pockets.\u00a0But as for the deduction for student interest for those overwhelmed with college loans, like other middle-class tax provisions, that\u2019s part of $65 billion in education tax assistance cut by this bill.\u00a0They are totally dependent upon alternative facts.\u00a0 Today\u2019s bill even authorizes the biggest tax dodgers who want to pay absolutely zero in taxes by abolishing the alternative minimum tax. That one change in one year would have put $31 million in Donald Trump\u2019s pocket.\n\u201cSo Trump has very good reason to visit this Capitol today\u2014just to say thank you for the estimated $1 billion plus that is estimated to go to the Trump family under this bill. \u2018When does my tax refund get here?,\u2019 he must be saying. But, of course, we do not know precisely how much he will be personally enriched, because House Republicans are still colluding to hide his tax returns.\n\u201cRepublicans want to apply a \u2018dynamic score\u2019 to this bill.\u00a0I say, create a dynamic workforce.\u00a0Invest in people; do not overwhelm us with endless debt. Develop a more competitive, healthy workforce, that empowers our Dreamers and other immigrants, that gives every American access to education and skill upgrades to achieve their full, God-given potential.\n\u201cAs they deny one middle-class deduction after another and impose a new Alzheimer\u2019s tax, Republicans claim that they have a patented tax miracle cure for most everything but baldness.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve seen this traveling trickle-down medicine side-show before. It didn\u2019t work then, it won\u2019t now. All they are doing is grabbing for a political life-preserver after ten months of Republican failures but leaving Americans drowning in debt. This isn\u2019t tax reform; it\u2019s a giant giveaway to Washington special interests that must be stopped.\u201d\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-trump-hill-republicans-thanks-my-billion-dollar-tax-breaks"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.395959872752428, "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"}