I introduced with Senator Cardin the Protecting Taxpayers Act--bipartisan legislation to make the IRS more responsive and accountable to taxpayers.

Is it also not true that requiring these organizations to provide the IRS with this information needlessly put private taxpayer information at risk?

President Trump has rightly made economic growth and job creation a focal point of domestic policy.

Was this decision not based on the determination that this information was unnecessary for tax administration purposes and imposed unnecessary costs on both the IRS and the taxpayers?

I believe there is an opportunity for this Congress to get the IRS back moving in the right direction.

I applaud the efforts of Chairman Hatch and Ranking Member Wyden, as well as the House, for the solutions they've offered to advance IRS reform.

Mr. President, I want to bring my fellow Senators up to date on a subject that was sparked by the remarks made this morning by the minority leader. I also want to add some additional context that the minority leader left out. He spoke on…

Mr. Speaker, I was unable to vote on July 24, 2018, due to delayed travel on account of inclement weather. Had I been present, I would have voted as follows: ``Yes'' on rollcall No. 368, ``Yes'' on rollcall No. 369, ``Yes'' on rollcall No…

The reason I focus on it is because I have heard a good number of them.

It is opportunity to them.

Any of your friends and associates that are business people as well, what are you hearing?

I know that President Trump as a candidate said that for every new regulation, eliminate two old ones.

I just want to ask the Chairman if you have got that in your hand for the benefit of the Committee, what the gross receipt number is that is used to measure small business.

Five hundred employees.

But then my first question was, why in the world did we have any new regulations?

Some time, Mr. Chairman, I think we ought to have a hearing in this Committee about the child labor laws.

Thank you, Mr. Treppendahl.

For my part, as a parent and as a grandparent, I can think of no issue of greater importance than keeping children safe from sexual predators.