John Boozman

Failure to reauthorize would send Iran exactly the opposite message. In other words, the U.S. will not push back against bad Iranian behavior.

Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Commissioner, for being here. We appreciate your testimony very, very much.

In regard to the Get Transcript application, the IRS will eventually send out over 1.7 million letters that are being mailed to affected taxpayers.

But they received them in the past?

If we want to change Cuba, we need to have more contact with Cuba.

Last year, I offered an amendment to the Senate Financial Services bill that was adopted by voice vote based on a bill that I and Senator Heitkamp introduced.

Community banks did not cause the financial crisis, yet they have been affected during the implementation of Dodd-Frank.

As always, certainly if members have questions, they will submit those for the record, and we would appreciate your response.

Taxpayers have been hit with an increasing number of scams this filing season.

Are we continuing to conduct ongoing reviews to ensure the entities are not engaging in any of the prohibited activities?

The administration has taken a number of steps to foster stronger economic ties with Cuba, yet a major barrier that my constituents in Arkansas face is the ban on private credit for agricultural transactions in the Cuban marketplace.

Unfortunately, little progress has been made in reducing compliance costs and regulatory burdens.

The budget for 2017 would create $3.4 trillion in new taxes, increase spending by $2.5 trillion, and add $6.1 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years.

This is a huge area that I think is kind of the tip of the iceberg if we are not careful.

Right. We understand the IG is responsible for following up, as you testified and others have talked about, and prosecuting the IRS impersonation scammers.

The American people want a government that works for them, not against them.

The burdens on the smaller institutions should reflect the risks they present.

This budget does nothing to address Washington's spending problem.

Why are the employee bonuses a priority over funding other critical missions of the agency?

I was pleased to hear about the VA's goals with the electronic management platform, particularly with the proposed inclusion of the veteran's service history.

It is our desire that with what we have learned about clinical record exchange, health information exchange, with building JLV, that we will be able to work with our DOD colleagues.

When do you anticipate the platform happening?

I think this has been a good hearing. We covered a lot of ground.

We do appreciate your service in so many different ways to your country and your fellow veterans.

I commend you on the things that you have done, but let us stick to our goal of by the end of March getting a new toolbox and giving you the tools that you need to have accountability as a mechanism that works in the VA.