“Mr. Speaker, what a great opportunity to really stand up here and smile and talk to the American public with the words of constituents from Michigan’s First District, because these are not my words. These are their words over the last 21⁄2 months or so since we passed the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act.
“You know, in November 2016, the great people of Michigan’s First District sent me to Washington with a direct, yet simple, mandate: Get Washington, D.C., out of our pockets and off our backs. For a marine, that is a pretty simple mission-oriented instruction. The Tax Cuts & Jobs Act was the first major step to accomplishing that goal.








