[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 120 (Tuesday, July 17, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S4974]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               TAX REFORM

  Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, on a different matter, it is becoming 
a historic year for favorable economic news. There are plenty of ways 
to measure how American workers, job creators, and entrepreneurs are 
writing a new chapter.
  After nearly a decade of stagnating pay and vanishing opportunities, 
recent months have brought remarkable milestones. Optimism among 
American small businesses has reached its highest level since President 
Reagan's first term. Sixty-seven percent of Americans believe that now 
is a good time to find a quality job in the United States--the highest 
percentage in 17 years of Gallup polling. Just last month, a 
manufacturing industry measure reported growth in 17 out of 18 sectors, 
from textiles to precision technologies.
  It is no surprise, then, that the National Association of 
Manufacturers found last month that a record-high 95.1 percent of 
American manufacturers have a positive view of their company's outlook.
  What do these numbers mean to real workers on the floor of American 
factories? At Mack Molding, an injection molder and contract 
manufacturer, with locations in Statesville, NC, and Arlington, VT, it 
means a $5.4 million investment in facilities with preparations to hire 
100 new workers. At Sabel Steel, based in Montgomery, AL, it means 
large pay raises for most of the company's 230 employees and new, more 
efficient equipment at facilities across the South. Both companies 
credit last year's historic tax reform law with helping make their 2018 
success possible.
  Our Democratic colleagues can talk all they like about repealing 
middle-class families' and job creators' historic tax cuts and sending 
that money back to Washington instead, but this united Republican 
government is proud of the new prosperity they are building. We will 
not let the Democrats take away their tax cut.
  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. DURBIN. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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