the recent Corker-Coons proposal, which completely unties U.S. food aid from U.S. agriculture and cargo preference requirements, is estimated to increase the reach of title II by as many as 12 million more people.

The twin challenges we face are how to make this program more efficient so that it reaches more people.

Thank you, Chairman Corker, for convening this and leading this effort.

Food aid reform is one that has eluded any significant progress for a long time.

If we were to simply more directly fund through DOD the maintenance of a DOD appropriate sealift capacity, what difference might there be in efficiency of outcome?

For this country to meet its climate and clean air goals, we must have nuclear in the energy mix.

This is an issue that cries out to be addressed.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And, Commissioner Koskinen, it is great to see you. You have a tough job.

We turned to Massachusetts, the one State that actually tried to address this issue.

We do not make your job any easier because we do not fully fund the work that needs to be done.

But we are not allowing you to make the kind of progress that you ought to be able to make.

Can we do better at this? You bet we could. And we will.

But it galls the hell out of me to know that people call the IRS and they have to wait forever to get somebody on the line.

There is an old cartoon character, Pogo, who said, 'We have seen the enemy and it is us.'

Tax administration is not a political enterprise.

I often say, almost every day, find out what works, do more of that.

We are complicit in that. We in the Legislative Branch are complicit in that because we are not providing a reasonable amount of funding for the IRS.

I am a big believer in repetition, and I am going to ask you--this is important, and I just want to make sure we got this straight in terms of what we can be doing on this side of the dais to enable you and your folks to do a better job, a…