[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 204 (Thursday, December 14, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S8018]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                         Tax Cuts and Jobs Bill

  Now, on a final matter, Mr. President, yesterday, Congress moved 
closer to delivering much-needed tax relief to American families and 
small businesses as Members of the House and the Senate held a public 
meeting of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act conference committee. The 
conferees discussed the best way to provide tax reform to families and 
small businesses across our country. Throughout this process, we have 
focused on the middle class and on those left behind by the Obama 
economy--like many of the families in Kentucky who I represent.
  By overhauling our broken and outdated Tax Code, we are working to 
seize this once-in-a-generation opportunity to grow paychecks, create 
more jobs, and help our economy reach its full potential. The plan 
before the conference committee will also end many of the perverse 
incentives for corporations to ship American jobs overseas. We want to 
bring those jobs and investments home and keep them here.

  Once the committee completes its work to reconcile the differences 
between each Chamber's bill, every Member of Congress will have the 
opportunity to cast a vote to provide meaningful tax relief to middle-
class Americans. That should be something we all can support. And when 
Congress does, this bill will go to the President's desk to become law.
  I would like to thank every Member who has contributed to making tax 
reform a reality, following years of hearings and proposals and a 
multitude of amendments as this legislation proceeded through regular 
order.
  This is a chance to work together to get the economy going again and 
lift up the families that the Obama Administration's policies left 
behind. I hope that we can take this opportunity to move beyond 
partisanship to deliver real tax reform for the middle class. Many of 
the provisions of this bill are based on ideas that our friends across 
the aisle used to say they supported. I hope our friends will support 
them again.
  I would like to once again commend the conferees for their work, and 
I look forward to voting on the committee report soon.
  Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. MORAN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.