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I think it is absolutely fundamentally wrong.

Man, you live in la la land. That's the problem.

I claim the time in opposition. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 10 minutes.

In the same way Federal lands must be accessible to sportsmen and -women, so must our Federal waters as well. I concur with the gentleman that there is an access problem with the red snapper. The underlying bill extends the Gulf State…

I appreciate the courtesy you gave to the gentlewoman from Florida in allowing her to finish her statement. She illustrates very clearly how the problems that exist are structural problems that can't simply be solved if we just add more…

I am happy to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Jody B. Hice), another great worker and a member of our committee.

I am pleased to yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Alaska (Mr. Young), the sponsor of this piece of legislation. He is the senior member of our committee, as well as someone who knows more about this issue than probably anyone else on…

Bless you. I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Beyer).

I certainly don't want to break any protocols we may have. So, therefore, I want to echo what the gentleman from Oklahoma so brilliantly and so fluently and obviously not slowly enough said. With that, Mr. Speaker, once again, we will go…

I am going to speak very slowly as I am waiting for someone else to show up on the next bill and would, therefore, yield as much time as he may consume to the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Mullin) for another couple of anecdotes as to why…

As we begin the debate on this particular bill, I am pleased that the gentleman from Nebraska (Mr. Smith) is here with us to introduce this very effective and important bill. I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from…

It should be clear to everybody that beefing up cyber-security at the IRS must be a top priority

When you pay for less of something, you get less of it.

Our hearing today concerns recent revelations that the Internal Revenue Service was the target of an organized service breach aimed at roughly 200,000 taxpayer accounts.

Commissioner Koskinen, put simply, your agency has failed these taxpayers.

Congress plays an important role too, and can help by approving the President's 2016 budget request, which provides for $101 million specifically devoted to identity theft and refund fraud.

If it wasn't right in the Bush administration, it's not right in the Obama administration. I don't care who's in the White House, it's wrong, it's wrong, it's wrong.

Thank you, Senator Feinstein. Yes, I agree. The United States came to Haiti's aid after it suffered a devastating earthquake in 2010. We should do the same for Nepal today.