I welcome the opportunity today to conduct critical oversight of the Treasury Department and its programs.
As you know, the IRS's budget has been cut substantially since fiscal year 2010, and because of sequestration, the cuts last year were the m...
And, by the way, we had a very good hearing with the Financial Sanctions Section with David Cohen, which Senator Johanns and I were involved...
We know that immigration reform is a driver of economic growth in this country.
Sanctions against North Korea have not been successful at preventing proliferation and other activities that threaten our national security.
Congress probably exercises its most effective oversight of agencies and programs through the appropriations process.
As a result of these resource reductions, the IRS's ability to meet the service needs of the taxpaying public has been severely impaired.
Now, turning to the Treasury request, Secretary Lew, most of the $13.8 billion of gross funding requests for the Treasury Department is for ...
Until every American who wants a job can find a job, and a job that pays a decent wage, we still have more work to do.
I think that there are other things in the budget, like skills training, that are critically important.
It is vital that we find a solution to our budget problem, so that the IRS can be on a path to a more stable and predictable level of fundin...
the big issues that you face are refund fraud and identity theft. And these are serious, pervasive problems in the United States.
I look forward to working with Congress and this subcommittee to do just that.
Identity theft can be devastating for victims whose legitimate refunds are blocked, forcing them to spend months untangling their account pr...
the way the IRS got themselves in a mess is they interpreted the word 'exclusively' to means 'primarily.'
We take tax evasion seriously; that if you, in fact, willfully are not paying your taxes, we will track you down.
This year, in 2014, we got zero dollars to implement the Affordable Care Act.
Thank you for the opportunity to testify on the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) fiscal year 2015 budget request.
