"It appears to be a document that was prepared without the committee staff's full participation."
"I also want to make sure I emphasize again something else you said, because there is a need to dispel this rumor, this myth floating out there, that the money that IRS needs to try to implement this n..."
"If you are going to get to forgo having to pay those taxes that an otherwise established enterprise has to pay, we should make sure that the public is getting some benefit for it."
"Because as we have served on this subcommittee in the past, that has been one issue I have raised quite often, with regard to the non-profit, charitable world, is are they, in fact, providing a servic..."
"the budget bill that was passed by this House, H.R. 1, by the Republican majority a few weeks back, would cut $600 million out of your budget, which you said would cost us in revenues, because of lowe..."
"there was no direction in the budget bill that cuts the $600 million as to how you could do it in a way that would not undermine services."
"One quick way, simply by removing the tax cuts, the Bush tax cuts for the top 1 percent of American earners, the wealthiest 1 percent."
"The greatest contributor, in fact, to today's deficits are the fact that the Bush tax cuts, which went mostly to very wealthy people, drained the Treasury of a great deal of money."
"What we do with the budget tells Americans what we think about America and how we believe we should move forward as a country together."
"I hope everyone will agree that we should have those who really partied during the first decade of the 21st century and made the deficits that we have today pay for their sins."
"the more we do private sector investment, the more we see productivity increases for our workers, the better things will be."