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I am pleased as well to hear that we have an agreement on the human trafficking legislation. It is something that should be above politics. Unfortunately, anything around here, it seems, gets sucked into politics from time to time, but it…
As with the EPA's IG, the CSB leadership in recent years has been, shall we say, extremely reluctant to cooperate with congressional oversight committees.
Congress has not delegated the Secretary of the Interior authority to create new 'Federally Recognized Tribes' in Congress' stead.
And I do believe you are mandated to supply information to this committee as well.
We do share some information at their request when anyone is being considered for a Senate confirmation position and their tax returns have to be--those are by consent.
And so we have come back and asked for those documents, and you told us that it would be unmanageable to look for those emails between the IRS and the White House.
The problem that I have today is that the IRS gets to choose where it spends some of its dollars. And it looks to me like you are purposely diverting money away from customer service to harm taxpayers.
I believe that is down to almost 10 percent of the account. And it was directly chosen by you to do that at a time when you come before our committee and you come before many other places around town talking about the fact you don't have…
You have complained today and previously several times that Congress has not given you enough money to do due diligence on customer service.
I agree with that, as well. So I appreciate that that is a part of these negotiations that are ongoing within TPP
American farmers and ranchers are extremely frustrated with China's unjustified barriers that they put up for our Ag products.
It is interesting; for my producers in South Dakota that are involved in agriculture, we sell 11½ times more goods to countries where we have trade agreements than to those countries that we don't have trade agreements.
We greatly appreciate the leadership of Chairman Thune for enactment as part of the new Medicare physician payment reforms...
When you indicated currently one-third of the VA medical centers do not have a gynecologist on staff and refer women to other VA facilities or community providers.
If you could. I would appreciate that, Mr. Chairman, if they could provide that to the Committee.
The numbers that you are talking about are basically the metrics of the numbers of specific tests and so forth that have been performed as opposed to an analysis of the satisfaction of the individuals that have been involved.
I was pleased to hear that you had some very favorable reports in your opening comments with regard to the performance, or at least the analysis.