Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I have a handful of things we need to do. A little while ago, we had an Oversight Subcommittee hearing--I chair the Oversight Subcommittee on Ways and Means. Some of the things that get said around here, we just shake our heads. Think about some of the things we hear from the press, from the Democrats, they are just panic-stricken. I need to actually walk the American people and our own staff through a little bit of the facts and a little bit of the truth. We have done multiple presentations here, saying if we want to find waste and fraud, if we want to find programs that are mis-designed, and other things that are going on, don't hire a bunch of lawyers. Don't actually hire a bunch of investigators. Hire data scientists. It turns out the truth is in the math. The math can tell us. What is amusing is listening to some of the Democrats talk about how we don't want people seeing our data. Maybe they should actually pay attention to the current law. When we hear certain leftist groups--and most of these are actually fairly left--saying we did an analysis of U.S. taxpayer data and blank, blank, blank is getting this, actually understand--the IRS is one of the things I oversee. For decades, apparently, they have data-sharing models for researchers. Not to give out the names but Harvard, University of Sydney, so they are not even domestic; some are out of the country. Yes, there are some rules.…”