Jim Kolbe: “I want to respond to a few of the things said by my colleague, the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), my friend, who I…”

“I want to respond to a few of the things said by my colleague, the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), my friend, who I have a great deal of respect for. We just happen to disagree about this bill and the way it has come to the body. I wished we could be in more complete agreement about it. First, with regard to the funding for IRS. Let us be clear. We have an agency that has 95,000, that is 95,000, employees. It is not a small agency. It is also one in which I think most of us have recognized over the years, that is why we passed the modernization legislation, it has been one that has been too bureaucratic, too hard to move around, to difficult in order to get a handle on it. So I do not think that the issue really is adding more employees. It is making better use of the dollars, better use of technology, better use of management techniques more than anything else.”