Congress 113 - HRES 745 - Expressing the sense of the House that a Contract with America should restore American competitiveness.

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Administrative law and regulatory procedures Budget deficits and national debt Budget process Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits Corporate finance and management Economics and Public Finance Foreign and international corporations Immigration status and procedures Income tax rates Infrastructure development Medicaid Medicare Oil and gas Poverty and welfare assistance Social security and elderly assistance Tax reform and tax simplification Taxation of foreign income Trade restrictions

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Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that a Contract with America should include a roadmap to restore American competitiveness by:

simplifying the corporate tax structure with lower statutory rates and no loopholes;
taxing overseas profits earned by American multinational companies only where they are earned;
easing the immigration of highly skilled individuals;
responsibly developing America's shale-gas and oil reserves;
aggressively addressing distortions and abuses in the international trading system;
improving American logistics, communications, and energy infrastructure;
simplifying and streamlining federal regulation; and
creating a sustainable federal budget, including entitlement reform.

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Sep 19, 2014

Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
Sep 18, 2014

Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Natural Resources, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Sep 18, 2014

Introduced in House

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