that $14 billion cut would lose $90 billion to the taxpayer, as Dr. Sarin pointed out.

Well thank you for that, and it does constantly amaze me how some of our colleagues are opposed to trying to collect taxes that are already due and owing.

I claim the time in opposition. The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Bost). The gentleman from Maryland is recognized for 5 minutes.

This is another time when we retreat from oversight. We talk a lot about oversight on the Committee on Appropriations. We talk a lot about oversight in the authorizing committees, that we need to find out what the people are doing, what we…

Well, I will be half as articulate about it. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.

Let me read the remarks of the Commission in response to this amendment. It says: The amendment would prevent the FTC from implementing, administering, or enforcing any rule it may promulgate pursuant to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking…

From what I understand, the chairman is saying that standing up twice is twice as good as standing up once. Mr. Chair, let me say something about my friend Mr. Gensler, whom I have known since he was a young boy. His father was a friend of…

Right. I mean so that's another way of saying it just doesn't compute, right?

I just wanted to lay that out there. It is not that I necessarily agree with what is being proposed by Republicans, but I do believe we should look for incremental improvements that can be executed in a 10-day or 6-week legislative…

I support the gentleman's amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time.

My point is we have the right to oversight. The gentleman has the right to call them to come and testify and call others to testify on whether this program works or doesn't. We haven't given up that authority of oversight, as the gentleman…

If we do not go forward with the continued assistance, it will undermine the NATO alliance and other European partners, and we all know other autocrats around the world like President Xi are watching very closely.

the House of Representatives just passed legislation to provide assistance to Israel, which I support, and they said they were going to offset that $14 billion cost by cutting $14 billion from the IRS.

First of all, let me address the gas stoves. That was a sidebar comment. It wasn't anything about taking gas stoves out of people's homes or out of their yard or anything of that nature. It was a political gem that has been seized on by…

First of all, our economy is doing better than almost any economy in the world. I have had numerous debates, Mr. Chair, or discussions with the majority leader in the last Congress. He kept talking to me about American energy. I kept…

I would make an observation. I understand what the gentleman is saying. The IRS says there are $688 billion. That is not chump change, not behind the sofa cushion, $688 billion. They say that if they have the resources, they can collect a…

I just wanted to lay that out there. It is not that I necessarily agree with what is being proposed by Republicans, but I do believe we should look for incremental improvements that can be executed in a 10-day or 6-week legislative…

If you want to get tough on Putin, don't elect one of his friends President of the United States. This legislation that has been offered, as I understand it, wants to see a full sanction and prohibition on dealing with Russian oil. That…