Jim Kolbe: “I have mixed views about this. I understand what the gentleman is trying to do. I would just point out that this comes…”

“I have mixed views about this. I understand what the gentleman is trying to do. I would just point out that this comes out of the Inspector General's account. This is the account that we regard as the one we expect to do the oversight for the IRS and all the other functions in Treasury. Now, in an account that has over $100 million, maybe losing $1 million of that is not that significant. But we do not really know exactly what the impact of this will be in terms of their oversight functions. I am also a little unclear as to exactly, and I know the gentleman has talked about it being a demonstration project, but I am a little unclear as to exactly how this would work, what the $950,000 is going to be used for. There have not been any hearings, as I understand it, in front of the Committee on Commerce. There has been no work done by the authorizing committee on this. I think this needs more information and more discussion before we would proceed with it. For that reason, I would just say that I think this amendment may be an inappropriate amendment at this point.”