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Mike Crapo
@mikecrapo· Republican · ID· Feb 14, 2023

There's growing uncertainty about when or even if the IRS plan for spending the $80 billion will be publicly released.

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Jim Risch
@jimrisch· Republican · ID· Feb 14, 2023

I encourage President Obrador of Mexico to deepen our bilateral security cooperation for the sake of our region's security and prosperity.

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Jim Risch
@jimrisch· Republican · ID· Feb 14, 2023

I think complex is as kind a way as you could say it regarding our relationship with China at the present time.

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Jim Risch
@jimrisch· Republican · ID· Feb 14, 2023

I do not know what the path forward is.

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Jim Risch
@jimrisch· Republican · ID· Feb 14, 2023

In 2021, more than 100,000 Americans--more than 100,000 Americans--died from drug overdoses, nearly 70 percent of which were from fentanyl poisoning.

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Jim Risch
@jimrisch· Republican · ID· Feb 14, 2023

The difficulty, of course, is that that situation deteriorated dramatically and quickly and we are back to where we were before.

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Mike Crapo
@mikecrapo· Republican · ID· Feb 14, 2023

I want to know whether you are going to commit today that the plan will not allow this super-sized enforcement money to be utilized against people who make less than $400,000 per year.

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Jim Risch
@jimrisch· Republican · ID· Feb 14, 2023

It is time the Administration wakes up. We have a serious threat at the border and the President needs to be serious about addressing it.

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Jim Risch
@jimrisch· Republican · ID· Feb 14, 2023

I think we all know that illicit fentanyl and other synthetic opioids pose an unprecedented threat to American families.

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Jim Risch
@jimrisch· Republican · ID· Feb 14, 2023

Addressing this threat will require greater awareness about the dangers of fentanyl, better coordination of local, state, and federal law enforcement resources for mental health, and effective--very effective--international cooperation.

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Jim Risch
@jimrisch· Republican · ID· Feb 14, 2023

America does not believe that, that the border is secure with the thousands of people that are coming across.

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Jim Risch
@jimrisch· Republican · ID· Feb 14, 2023

I cringe every time I hear somebody from the Administration say, oh, well, the border is secure.

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Mike Crapo
@mikecrapo· Republican · ID· Feb 14, 2023

The policies that have been enacted by President Biden's reckless tax and spending bill really are not going to be helpful in trying to regain the credibility of the American people for the agency.

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Mike Crapo
@mikecrapo· Republican · ID· Feb 14, 2023

I want to get into that. From the IRS's own data, the two largest single components of the tax gap... are small businesses, small business income, and individual non-business income.

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Mike Crapo
@mikecrapo· Republican · ID· Feb 14, 2023

Secretary Yellen reportedly has said she's directed the IRS not to use this--somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 billion--to enforce against people with incomes less than $400,000.

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James E. Risch
@jameserisch· ID· Feb 9, 2023

The United States has to step up and defend democratic values, not just the might of our military, but the power of our diplomatic persuasion.

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James E. Risch
@jameserisch· ID· Feb 9, 2023

The United States has to step up and defend democratic values, not just the might of our military, but the power of our diplomatic persuasion.

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James E. Risch
@jameserisch· ID· Feb 9, 2023

I have said for years that we Republicans and Democrats--the executive and legislative branch--have to work together if we are going to confront what China is doing.

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