[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 53 (Thursday, April 18, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H2129]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         SIMPLIFY THE TAX CODE

  (Mr. PITTENGER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTENGER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay respect to those 
faithful Americans who filed their tax returns this week, only with a 
stark reminder of the enormous burden we have placed upon them with our 
complicated Tax Code.
  You know, it's been like a snowball going down a hill. It just gets 
bigger and more bloated and more cumbersome with each passing year. 
It's become an avalanche on the back of the American taxpayer.
  Mr. Speaker, this needs to stop. We've added 4,400 changes to the Tax 
Code just in the last 10 years. We can make it better.
  House Republicans have a plan. We have a plan to reform the Tax Code, 
to make it simpler, to make it fairer, to make it responsible to the 
American people, to put more money in their paychecks and to give more 
money to them to take care of their families.
  Mr. Speaker, American taxpayers deserve better, and we're going to do 
it.

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