We have discouraged China and all claimants from taking unilateral actions, and we continue to encourage China to clarify its claims in accordance with international law.

Is there a cumulative cost estimate of the financial impact of all these changes on the Department?

How convenient. You have no records of what is destroyed and when.

That is just wrong. It is just wrong.

Congress has been investigating the IRS since 2011, and you are just now getting the memo to start preserving things in 2016?

Do you see why we have zero confidence in the record retention policy and the ability to execute on it?

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Why does it take almost 5 years to get the message that you should not be destroying things? Why does it take so long?

I do not believe the administration has been straightforward about the nature of the debt restructuring authority it is seeking for the territory.

Over the past year, we've seen both progress and setbacks at the IRS.

We need to be clear about what's actually being debated and proposed here.

I have been working hard with a number of my colleagues to put together a package to help the people of Puerto Rico.

I think we ought to get it out of politics and get it solved.

Today, the committee welcomes the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, John Koskinen.

This is unacceptable.

This budget once again taxes too much, spends too much, and never balances.

I have a bill with Senators Grassley and Murkowski that offers assistance, along with more than $7 billion of fiscal relief to the island, without adding a penny to the Federal deficit or debt.

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