Katie Porter

I think one of the concerns is, without the kind of work that you are doing, without digging into that research, we can't accurately count how many wildlife-related cases there are.

It is fiscally responsible to give USGS the necessary funding and to hold it to account.

I do think that when we, as taxpayers, invest in data, that it ought to be shared as much as possible.

The reason for that is that oversight is a key congressional function.

The point of disclosure is you put these disclosures out there, you put them out there and then the ethics experts, the American people, the FDA administrator, they decide whether or not there`s a conflict of interest.

Well, Mr. Sternfels, is, shouldn't the FDA have been allowed to make its own decision about whether or not your company's work for Purdue did or did not create a conflict?

Should McKinsey have disclosed to the FDA that it was helping opioid manufacturers influence drug-safety regulations?

Look, your scheme worked really well for McKinsey; McKinsey got contracts, Purdue got rich, and America got addicted.

Who made you conflict of interest czar for the United States Government?

Is that your position?

But are you suggesting that working on things like the design on organizational structure... doesn't affect how those regulations actually get enforced?

It should be an urgent priority for this Congress to rebuild the IRS.

Congress has a job to do today, and it is not going to get done by casting aspersions on the men and women of the IRS.

Every dollar invested in enforcement would return $5 in additional revenue collected.

That is enough money to give every American taxpayer a tax cut of $1,000.

Families need their tax refund to pay their rent.

We need to hear your vision, Commissioner Rettig, for how to put the IRS on terra firma with hopefully strong congressional support.

The Taxpayer Advocate Service has recommended the implementation of this technology for 18 years.

We have to provide you with those resources, with the legislative directives to do it.

Tax audits of millionaires declined by 66 percent.

The independent Congressional Budget Office estimated... that the $80 billion investment requested by President Biden would increase revenues by $207 billion.

the super-rich are taking advantage of the lack of enforcement to evade their taxes at the expense of ordinary Americans.

The IRS is failing to serve many Americans.

One no-brainer is to support the $80 billion investment in the IRS within President Biden's Made in America tax plan.

We need to fund the IRS, and the IRS needs to focus its resources on auditing the rich, not average taxpayers.