But what if a business manager felt that was too onerous and couldn't they just divest themselves of those companies?

But in the end, Apple is selling a product, and so you are really talking about where do you tax the manufacturing income.

I do not recommend that we tax worldwide income, at least at the full U.S. tax rate.

So, again, those folks benefit from the fact that Apple is able to retain more of its profit by not paying out taxes to foreign governments?

I thank the gentleman from Georgia for yielding. I sponsored this legislation to improve the ability to protect the United States from terrorist attacks, including attacks using weapons of mass destruction or attacks involving ships and…

In addition to U.S. and State income taxes, what other taxes in the United States does Apple basically generate?

So even though 60 percent of your sales are overseas, what percentage is that? Almost two-thirds...

Madam Speaker, I rise today to talk about the most fundamental right we as Americans have as citizens of this great country, the right to vote. The right to vote is not just fundamental; it is the right that preserves all of our other…

That is why I have cosponsored the 'Preserving American Privacy Act of 2013,' a bill sponsored by Representative Ted Poe of Texas and Representative Zoe Lofgren of California.

I think what we can learn is to articulate, I hope, some of the things that we believe should be in any bill, which is use limitations, collection only for a particular purpose, not converting it to other purposes, discarding it when it is…

I am very pleased that we are holding this hearing today with the nominees in attendance.

So, Mr. Chairman, I think the way we need to do this is we need to pass a budget with those recommendations attached and remove the dollars that those recommendations say we can save, and I think that is how you get the thing done.

I was kind of surprised at the implementation rate--12 percent implemented, 66 percent partially implemented--but I am not really seeing the dollar savings.

I think a sunset committee is a great idea. I have been proposing one since I got here.

I believe Senator Coburn--I do not want to speak for him, but I think he estimates the total dollar cost of those duplicated programs is somewhere approaching $300 billion per year.

I would like to try to pin down who authorized the subpoenas for the AP.

I think we have engaged in a really nice conversation today to try to find some solutions on how we can move forward to truly end too-big-to-fail.

I think that is something the private market ought to institute, not a government solution.