Thank you, Chairmen Rice and Hurd and Ranking Member Larson, for holding this important hearing.
And I see this as a big area that has to be looked at.
We must approach the important matter of reforming and improving the Internal Revenue Service with a great deal of care.
I believe that we must do better, and that if we work together, we can do better.
We must remain focused on doing what is right, and what is just for the interests of every American taxpayer.
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the first rule of politics is if you want to get out of a hole, stop digging. And the president has been digging furious...
Yes. That makes sense to me. I'm wondering where the abundance of caution was before the president had multiple conversa...
I think it's the right thing to do. I called for this yesterday morning. I said, 'Look, this has gotten too partisan and...
What's great about our democracy and a lot of the times we get into this kind of trees in the forest and we forget looki...
I think he is wrong. I don't think it's a witch hunt. Look, if the president thinks there's nothing to hide in this, thi...
This is the problem with having a monetary union without a fiscal union.
There are a number of very interesting lessons that the world, as well as our country, I think should learn from this.
Oh, yes, this will be politically very, very difficult.
There is an old phrase that says this, that when the bulls fight, the grass loses.
At the base of your questions about the competitiveness of the U.S. economy, we have the best university system, we have...
So who loses as we dither under the current Tax Code? The wealthy are not suffering today.
I know in my State of Illinois, we lose about $40 billion a year, which is very comparable to the Greek subsidy.
