WASHINGTON,D.C. - Rep. Brat (R-Va.) issued the following statement regarding the beginning of the 115th Congress:
"I'm excited about the opportunities that lay before the 115th Congress. Now that the country is united behind Republican leadership in the House, Senate, and White House, we can begin moving quickly on a positive agenda that will unite this country and get Americans working again.
I always ask for a commitment from leadership to pursue the agenda I was sent by my constituents to work for here in Washington. Last Congress, five common sense immigration bills were passed out of the House Judiciary Committee. Speaker Ryan told me he will be working to pass those same bills this Congress.
Speaker Ryan has presented a bold plan for this year, including Obamacare repeal, cutting the corporate tax rate from the highest in the world to a competitive one that will help Americans attain employment, and rolling back the vast regulatory state that is strangling our small businesses. Speaker Ryan's policies are based on fiscal responsibility that I agree with and are a good, rational set of policy principles that will lay the groundwork for the year ahead of us.
Like the rest of the country, Speaker Ryan wants to make America great again through the Better Way agenda, and I'm looking forward to doing that with him in a positive and unified way this year."
