{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://miller.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-miller-speaks-trade-and-economic-policies-ways-and-means-markup", "Rep. Miller Speaks on Trade and Economic Policies at a Ways and Means Markup", "2023-06-14", "2023", "2023-06", "Republican", "House", "WV", "Carol D. Miller", "M001205", "miller.house.gov", "miller", "https://miller.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) participated in the Ways and Means Committee markup on the United States Taiwan Initiative on 21st- Century Trade First Agreement Implementation Act and three tax bills introduced by Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08). The Small Business Jobs Act, Build It in America Act, and Tax Cuts for Working Families Act extend key provisions of the 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act, protect small businesses, and provide tax relief for working families.\n\nOn the United States Taiwan Initiative on 21st- Century Trade First Agreement Implementation Act:\n\n\u201cApparently while the current Administration has been busy making trade suggestions, our adversaries have been very busy outmaneuvering us at every turn when it comes to trade, especially in the indo-pacific.\n\nThe United States Taiwan Initiative on 21st-Century Trade First Agreement Implementation Act is an important step to reasserting Congressional authority over trade, sending a strong message to China that they must respect Taiwan\u2019s sovereignty, and showing that the United States will not bow to threats or intimidation and will continue to support Taiwan.\n\nI commend the Chairman and Ranking Member\u2019s leadership and the bipartisan support of this commonsense bill.\u201d\n\nClick Here for Video.\n\nOn the Small Business Jobs Act:\n\n\u201cThank you, Chairman, for including my bill H.R. 190 \u2013 the Saving Gig Economy Taxpayers Act - in the Small Business Jobs Act.\n\nMy bill, which is co-sponsored by all Republican Ways and Means members, is a huge step in turning back the Democrat's disastrous American Rescue Plan provision which will send tens of millions of forms to taxpayers and small businesses in every congressional district.\n\nEven the IRS knew that lowering the threshold would be a disaster, so they single handedly and extra-legally delayed implementing the lower threshold for another year. This Administration has set a terrible precedent that the IRS can ignore tax laws when politically convenient.\n\nI also applaud the bill for expanding tax incentives to S Corporations, increasing immediate expensing for all small businesses, and for delivering the benefits of opportunity zones to rural communities like mine.\n\nI look forward to working with you Mr. Chairman, and this committee, to make the successful Opportunity Zone program even more effective, to ensure investors have the certainty that they need to make these important investment decisions.\u201d\n\nClick Here for Video.\n\nOn the Build It In America Act and American Families and Jobs Act.\n\n\u201cIn 2017, Tax Cut and Jobs Act was essential for getting our economy back on track after a decade of malaise caused by over regulation and taxation by the federal government.\n\nThe TCJA stopped American companies from investing overseas, brought billions of dollars in investment back to America, saved American jobs, and most importantly, raised wages and lowered unemployment for all groups, especially working-class Americans.\n\nInnovative provisions, such as Opportunity Zones, directed investment into chronically underserved areas while increasing the standard deduction, which simplified taxes for over 90% of Americans.\n\nIt is critical to continue the work started by the TCJA as our country teeters on the brink of recession. Extending R&D expensing will ensure our innovative economy stays competitive and extending interest deductibility will promote our medium sized businesses so they can survive in our current high interest rate environment.\n\nFurther, extending the 100% expensing provisions will promote American manufacturing and jobs in communities like mine in West Virginia.\n\nThese provisions, and others are essential for competing on the global market and countering the growing threat of the Chinese Communist Party.\u201d\n\nClick Here for Video.\n\nOn the Defending American Jobs and Investment Act\n\n\u201cAnother concern that I share with many of my colleagues is China\u2019s influence on the failed deal the Biden Administration \u201cnegotiated\u201d at the OECD. As an original co-sponsor of the Defending American Jobs and Investment Act, I applaud the Committee\u2019s work to send a clear message to the OECD that U.S. owed taxes are off limits to foreign treasuries.\n\nThis bill is a great first step, and I want to join my Republican colleagues in explaining that much more could be done if foreign governments continue down the path of undermining our American tax base and international treaties.\n\nThe Ways and Means Committee, not President Biden\u2019s Treasury Department, and I repeat that, the Ways and Means Committee is the source of the tax code. Last year when Democrats had full control of the government, even they couldn\u2019t come to an agreement to implement Biden and Yellen\u2019s flawed agreement in our tax code.\n\nAs long as we have a Republican House Majority, it will never happen.\n\nOur committee has a wide array of options in our arsenal, and a Republican President will ensure our country is defended from this disaster.\n\nI want this message to be very clear: If you are a foreign country that has already implemented a UTPR \u2013 Repeal it now.\n\nIf you are a foreign country considering implementing a UTPR \u2013 You better think twice.\u201d\n\nClick Here for Video.\n\nOn the Tax Cuts for Working Families Act and struggling small businesses in West Virginia.\n\n\u201cOur very first field hearing was in West Virginia. It wasn\u2019t in my district, it was about 10 miles north of my district, but was the closest place we could get driving from DC in a decent time frame.\n\nI\u2019d like to read to you a couple of quotes that were given in testimony while we were there.\n\nJamie Ward, who is a West Virginia native and a 30 year veteran of the coal industry said, \u2018I saw the coal industry decline further to the point where I was forced to leave West Virginia to find work in the industry in Alabama for a time. I watched the small towns of my home state fall on incredibly hard times, all because of anti coal policies that were being pushed in Washington DC, by people who had never even been to the place where I grew up.\n\nI remember a time when someone could not drive more than three or four miles without seeing a coal mine or you\u2019d be able to find work. Now, I have employees coming from many miles away, just to keep a job.\u2019\n\nAshley Bachmann, who\u2019s a mother of three and the owner of a restaurant called Cheetah B\u2019s in Petersburg, West Virginia.\n\nShe said, \u2018Our kitchen cooking equipment runs off of propane. During some months the cost of propane has more than doubled the price of what it was in the corresponding months of 2020. The rise in prices in all other industry costs have caused our lease payments to be increased from $2,000 to $4,500 a month in only five years time. Our little restaurant has been bleeding money due to all the increased costs, and I don\u2019t know how much longer we\u2019ll be able to continue with the prices the way they are.\u2019\n\nWhat we don\u2019t always realize is that bad policies that come out of Washington D.C. have really bad results. I have witnessed in my own district, the devastation of communities that have shrunk to 10% of their original size. There aren\u2019t any grocery stores. It\u2019s just incredible what happens when we do bad policy.\u201d\n\nClick Here for Video.\n\n\"I speak in strong favor of the Tax Cuts for Working Families Act.\n\nOne of the key provisions in the very successful 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was the expansion of the standard deduction. This committee has travelled all over the country, including my home state of West Virginia, just to hear how real Americans are struggling in Biden's economy.\n\nThe vast, vast majority of my constituents use the standard deduction on their taxes every year. That's why improving the standard deduction to the new and improved guaranteed deduction will ensure almost every West Virginian will get to keep more of their hard earned money and then it will circulate into our local economy.\n\nThe bonus $4,000 deduction is a $100 billion tax cut for the working families and will go a long way to make sure that my constituents can make ends meet.\n\nMr. Chairman, I appreciated this committee's continued focus on working class Americans and I look forward to quickly passing this legislation into law.\"\n\nClick Here for Tax Cuts for Working Families Act Video.\n\nBackground:\n\nThe United States Taiwan Initiative on 21st- Century Trade First Agreement Implementation Act - This bill will approve the first agreement with Taiwan while also clarifying it is not a Free Trade Agreement under the IRA. The bill re-establishes Congressional Authority and Congressional Vote on any future Taiwan Agreements.\n\nThe Small Business Jobs Act - Under President Biden\u2019s leadership, inflation and supply chain issues have drastically increased. This bill will eliminate IRS Red tape with Congresswoman Miller\u2019s Saving Gig Economy Act, invest into U.S. innovation and job opportunities while increasing new equipment and production expenses for small businesses, and create a provision for a new Rural Opportunity Zone program.\n\nThe Build It in America Act - This bill secures American supply chains and restores American competitiveness against efforts made by China. While promoting American jobs, the Build it in America Act will ensure mid-sized businesses can deduct borrowing costs by extending interest deductibility. The bill will repeal President Biden\u2019s tax on petroleum and prevent foreign adversaries from purchasing American land with a blocking tax rule.\n\nDefending American Jobs and investment Act - This bill has been co-sponsored by all Ways and Means Republican Members to implement taxes on any foreign country that enforces Americans to pay taxes under the OECD\u2019s global minimum tax.\n\nTax Cuts for Working Families Act - This bill will provide a $4,000 Guaranteed Deduction Bonus for household budgets of middle-class families for the next two years.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:15:57Z"]], "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://miller.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-miller-speaks-trade-and-economic-policies-ways-and-means-markup"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.1515780352056026, "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"}