Our primary goals should be to make the U.S. a better place to do business and to allow American companies to more effectively compete with their foreign counterparts in the world marketplace.

I think there is a growing chorus out there among some of my friends on the other side of the aisle to use corporate inversions as a political wedge issue in this election year.

Failure in the BEPS project could well result in countries taking unilateral, inconsistent actions.

I think we can all agree that addressing the shortcomings of our international tax system is a critical step on the road toward comprehensive tax reform.

We should not be rushed into accepting a bad deal just for the sake of reaching an agreement.

I am greatly concerned about these corporate inversions.

The approach in the proposed anti-inversion legislation is so misguided it reminds me of an old joke.

The United States has a great deal at stake in the BEPS project and a strong interest in its success.

Those bad outcomes would include international norms that increase tax disputes because they are vague.

Such a discussion usually is not helpful, in my opinion, and typically ends up going nowhere.

It is a pleasure to work with you.

The work of the OECD is done by consensus. That is, measures cannot be adopted without the consensus of all member countries.

There is no evidence to support the assertion that U.S. multinational corporations are at a competitive disadvantage because they face larger corporate tax burdens than their competitors under a worldwide rather than territorial tax system.

It seems that a discussion of international tax reform can at times result in a debate of capital export neutrality versus capital import neutrality.

I think Senator Hatch's bill, where it requires, say, Border Patrol, the Customs people, to actually, if there is a product coming into the States that says Kimber Kable on it, contact us and say, we do not think this is yours, because we…

We know that China in particular is systematically stealing critical information from hundreds of U.S. companies.

We really cannot afford to wait, and I want to personally express my regard for our chairman of this committee.

I agree with you that updating the Information Technology Agreement would help you and other companies across the United States access growing foreign markets.