U.S. State Attorneys General

Congress needs to do its part too by providing adequate resources and enacting legislation that strikes the right balance between efficiently processing returns and preventing fraud.

The Internal Revenue Service does a lot with a little, processing 140 million tax returns in the span of just a few months while combating fraud and enforcing our tax laws.

I still support this process, but I will note that there are many important and innovative steps being made to improve the quality of health care in Minnesota of which I am very proud.

The more efficiently we can use dollars for Medicaid, the more people we can help, and that is very important to me.

I applaud this Committee, Mr. Chairman, and, of course, our Ranking Members for looking into the good use of the public dollar.

I want to urge you to continue that effort, because it seems to me that one of the problems we get into in this committee... is that we start with a simple idea: What is the ratio of CEO pay to other average employees?

And if I may also add, we underfund an agency, and then when a Madoff situation comes up we blame the agency...

What the gentleman Mr. Levin is saying is correct, and I want to correct Mr. Cantor because he misspoke about the Democratic alternative. The Democratic alternative requires that a small business make an investment in a plant or small…

I can't escape the fact that our Nation was brought to the brink of financial collapse in October 2008.

Some people don't believe that that's the case. That is America. Ms. DeLAURO. That is. Now I would like to say ``thank you'' to our colleague from New Jersey, Congressman Holt, and ask him to join our conversation this evening.

It is a classic example of the right hand not knowing or not--more offensively, not caring what the other hand is doing

While any profiling of Americans based on race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin is disturbing, I think it is important also to note that it is poor law enforcement.

Religious or ethnic or racial stereotyping is simply not good policing, and it threatens the values Americans hold dear.

I would like to submit a letter from April the 17th, 2012, by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops opposing, as they say, our strong opposition to unfair proposals that would alter the child tax credit to exclude children of…

Thank you, Chairman Akaka, for calling today's hearing. You have been such a leader and champion in advancing the interests of the Native Hawaiian community.

I strongly support the passage of S. 65 and will continue working with the members of our delegation to see this measure advanced.

This mantra and this really--which is below you, I know, that says, 'Just give us more money because we can make things better,' doesn't work anymore

I sat down with my tax preparer and went over my taxes in preparation to file.

Mr. Becerra has one follow up question.

It is just incredible. We have American's who are voluntarily paying their taxes. You have a whole bunch of other American's who unfortunately are not doing what they should or at the level they should.

It is hard to believe you need a license to cut someone's hair, but in America, you do not need a license to prepare someone's perhaps most important financial documents.

My understanding is, and correct me if I am wrong, that we now estimate that some $385 billion annually is not paid in taxes that are either avoided or intentionally not paid in this country.

I cannot imagine the stress they are under given that you have thousands of Americans waiting to connect with them on the phone.

Please share with all the folks you work with that we thank them very much.