AARP.

could not expect to satisfy the requirements for tax-exempt status if they deliberately excluded nonmembers or free riders.

There is good reason to question whether AARP is primarily looking out for seniors or just its own bottom line.

I want to make clear a previous comment I made about Mr. Levin's approval of the IRS detailee that I spoke of earlier in our discussion.

I find that hard to accept.

I think there are legitimate questions that call into question whether there is a violation of for-profit or nonprofit status.

AARP has forgotten where they come from, because once you get into the business of making money with the devil, you forget your mission.

We are here to make national policy. We are certainly not here--none of us are saying this, I hope--to make AARP policy.

I for one am sorry that you are subjected to something of this nature because I truly think, reading through a 25 and a half page pamphlet with 243 footnotes, to try to dress it up to try to make it look official and authoritative and…

With all due respect, the notion somehow that they focus on Medicare Advantage that is rocky and is a draconian cut, Medicare Advantage means that 75 percent of your members who are senior citizens in fee-for-service pay $90 a year more.

I remember that when some Members of Congress who used to support helping seniors with end-of-life care, when the big lie about death panels, and they retreated, AARP was part of 400 individuals and groups that came forward to tell the…

I just think that I am glad it is in the record. I hope people look at it.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for allowing me some time to say a few words.

I think it makes the process much easier and much more credible when we have witnesses that are cooperative.

I would want to know to what extent they also operated through subcommittees.

I would appreciate that very much, thank you.

I hope that we get down to the real business, which I thought and I remember on both sides of the aisle, people campaigning back in November talking about job creation; jobs, jobs, jobs.

Well, I really appreciate the way you answer your questions, Mr. Josephson.