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The Federal Government, no government, can tax or regulate young people's behavior. That is silly. That is complete folly. Come on. How many parents do we have in this body? How many people in this body have dealt with young people? I…
Mr. President, I rise this afternoon to reflect on some of the dynamics of the debate on the tobacco bill. I think it is important we as a body step back and focus on some of the various dynamics and the consequences of what we may or may…
there are an awful lot of us who are now, as we head through the deliberation of this bill and the various amendments being offered--and, to be clear, I voted, on the budget resolution, in favor of the amendment being offered now by the…
I rise this afternoon to reflect on the business at hand today; that is, our Department of Defense authorization bill. Three hours ago, I had the privilege of joining a couple of my colleagues at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier during a…
I just wanted, in addition to making the point that the distinguished Senator has been very critical of the CIA--and I think he is quite right in this particular instance to say though we may need some questions answered, the biggest…
If we head in the direction of finding a scapegoat here what we will miss is an opportunity to debate what our policy ought to be toward the largest democracy on Earth. In addition to the other things that the Senator said about India…
Personally, I think it would be a waste of money to direct the CIA to read the New York Times and report to us what is contained in there relevant to any part of the world, let alone in India.
I am pleased to submit this proposal to provide critical support to teaching programs at free-standing children's hospitals. I am also honored to be joined by Senators Bond, Durbin, Kennedy, DeWine and Moynihan on this bill. Children's…
The barriers are crumbling; the system is working. Mr. President, those are the words of David Broder. He wrote them in a Washington Post op-ed on October 21, 1997 as he commented on the progress being made on IRS reform. Mr. Broder was…
to be clear, so Members understand, the IRS uses random audits for noncompliant taxpayers. We heard this problem a bit as well during the National Commission on Restructuring. A lot has to do with the ITC, and the effort we have had…
Let me congratulate the Democratic leader for an excellent statement. I couldn't have said it better myself. He is right; we have an excellent piece of legislation here. The law, as we are proposing it, will dramatically improve the kind…
There is a tremendous problem with this Y2K issue, and that is going to be felt by taxpayers who are not going to get returns. They are not going to get refunds and not going to be able to deal with the IRS because the computers are not…
I do believe in this kind of oversight where we ask four key people, three of whom are new creations under this law, to come and tell the oversight committee how well this new law is doing and if there is any additional changes in the law…
I would like to declare that I think we should be having a yearly hearing hosted by the Senate's Finance Committee with the IRS Commissioner, with the chair of the new oversight board created in this new law, the National Taxpayer…
the time has arrived to put some accountability and common sense into one of the most out of control federal agencies in the Federal Government, the Internal Revenue Service. Over the past nine months we have heard volumes of testimony…
the National Restructuring Commission included this provision in our bill. It is in the House bill, or at least provisions in it that dictate that an employee who does a number of things would be automatically terminated. What the Senator…
Today, it is estimated that taxpayers spend about--somewhere, actually, between $70 billion and $100 billion to comply with the Tax Code, $70 to $100 billion a year to comply with the Tax Code. The IRS budget is about $7 billion, so we…
this amendment offered by Senator Grassley and I will fix a problem having to do with Federal tax refunds and State offsets. For those of us that have State income tax, there is a problem of some considerable proportion. I thank Chairman…