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If you are confirmed, I hope that you will begin working jointly with Congress--and with members of both parties--to fix these problems.

Will you commit to this committee that, if confirmed, you will ensure that any political activity regulation the IRS finalizes will apply equally to 501(c)(4), 501(c)(5), and 501(c)(6) organizations?

It is vital that the IRS maintain its credibility. The American people should be able to trust that the IRS will enforce our Nation's tax laws without bias or prejudice.

The very nature of these credits--pay first, verify a person's income later--will lead to potentially hundreds of billions of dollars of improper payments.

I do not think the IRS can restore its reputation as a nonpartisan agency if it finalizes a regulation that favors one group over another like this.

In my opinion, the greatest single challenge facing the IRS is its need to recover the trust of the American people.

I simply want to thank both sides of the aisle. I want to thank Mr. McClintock, the chairman of this subcommittee, for allowing us to move this forward, and I appreciate the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Grijalva), the ranking member of the…

Establishing protection for these activities ought to be one of the goals that we look at.

We are tradition bound and we hide behind that, and we refuse to think outside the box.

So allowing paddling certainly would not underlie the values for which this river was established or is used?

What does the Federal Government have to lose by allowing States a greater place in the management of the lands between their borders?

Shame on America. Let us wake up to really what has happened to us.

Well, I must admit we were really surprised and shocked at the testimony that was submitted by the parks because the reaction has been so incredibly positive.

You are strongly opposed to it because it would take too much work to try and implement a solution ahead of time. That testimony is the indication of some entity that has simply spent too long in bureaucratic excess and not actually trying…

Which simply indicates that if the Federal Government has a backlog that in Alaska itself is $121 million, States certainly could do no worse than what the Federal Government is doing in ownership and management of these particular pieces…

There are Federal lands that are being managed by State and local government by an agreement.

I do appreciate what Mr. Grijalva has just said, and I would like simply to point out that while the shutdown was going on, the House did vote to open up all of these.

I wonder if they are prepared to do those kinds of agreements.