The IRS has a long way to go in restoring public trust after the unprecedented targeting scandal.

I am concerned about the agency's ability to effectively deter waste, fraud, and identity theft.

The agency is obligated to spend its nearly $12 billion budget wisely.

Congress can help us on both refund fraud and EITC by enacting several proposals in this year's budget for the IRS.

The committee's investigation of targeting has yielded a number of insights into operations during that timeframe of the Exempt Organizations Division.

There are a lot of hard-working people at the IRS. They do their jobs day in and day out.

It's hard to get the groups together to figure that out.

We are very interested, of course, in the testimony, and that will be subject to change as we go.

Thank you very much.

The President's budget cut the funding for cyber education by 52 percent.

I think at least in my experience, if the goal is to actually educate whatever, 1.5, 1.7, 2.5, you've got to measure it.

What I'm going to continue to press you on is some specifics.

I would describe the National Guard as well positioned to be of great help to our country in this particular line of defense.

We really want to know if our agencies and entities that we're funding are doing the kind of job that you as experts in the field believe they should be doing.

I believe that I have a unique perspective, along with other members as well, on the extent that critical infrastructure throughout our country relies more and more on our interdependent technologies.

Senator Cochran, thank you for your leadership.

We have to get it on firm financial footing.

It is hard for my constituents and folks across the country to understand how this could happen.