Political Quotes

“I appreciate the comments of the Senator from Utah and his recitation of the chronology and how this happened. These regulations are supposedly in response to the scandal that came up, although the President is not calling it a scandal. He says there is not any evidence there was any wrongdoing. But these plans were actually being developed a couple years ago--long before we knew the IRS was targeting conservative organizations. So the notion this is in response to what just occurred is wrong. What is equally troubling--or more troubling--as the Senator from Utah noted, these plans were described, in an internal memo, as ``offplan,'' around the process--that were hidden. So that is what we are asking for in this legislation. Let's not do any rulemaking until the results of the investigations that are going on come back to us. That is a prudent thing to do, and I hope we will follow through. I now yield to the minority whip, Senator Cornyn.”