[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 105 (Friday, June 22, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H5576]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                TAX CUTS AND JOBS ACT IS GETTING RESULTS

  (Mr. PAULSEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PAULSEN. Mr. Speaker, today is the 6-month anniversary of the Tax 
Cuts and Jobs Act. And few would have thought that 6 months ago we 
would have seen such progress so fast because of tax reform, and the 
results are significant: bigger paychecks and employers giving workers 
pay raises; we have got faster economic growth; we have got 1 million 
new jobs that have now been created since the beginning of the year 
already; unemployment is at one of its lowest rates ever, under 4 
percent; and we actually now, for the first time in history, have more 
job openings than jobseekers.
  This is a good thing, with more business investment, record optimism 
among small businesses and manufacturers, and consumer confidence 
nearly at an all-time high.
  Mr. Speaker, tax reform was just the shot in the arm that our economy 
needed to put Americans back to work and get our economy back on track.

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