Tom Carper

I think this is a big issue, and most people have not a clue of the value to our country, to their communities, of a Census done well.

I would like to hear the others.

It is just really imperative that we deliver.

Senator Schumer has spelled out with great passion and, as you know, a lot of heart-felt feeling and thought, his views on currency manipulation.

We have a responsibility--I have tried to stress that--to spend taxpayer dollars carefully.

Just use some common sense.

I am a big believer in repetition, and I am going to ask you--this is important, and I just want to make sure we got this straight in terms of what we can be doing on this side of the dais to enable you and your folks to do a better job, a…

We are complicit in that. We in the Legislative Branch are complicit in that because we are not providing a reasonable amount of funding for the IRS.

I often say, almost every day, find out what works, do more of that.

Tax administration is not a political enterprise.

There is an old cartoon character, Pogo, who said, 'We have seen the enemy and it is us.'

Can we do better at this? You bet we could. And we will.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And, Commissioner Koskinen, it is great to see you. You have a tough job.

This is an issue that cries out to be addressed.

But it galls the hell out of me to know that people call the IRS and they have to wait forever to get somebody on the line.

We turned to Massachusetts, the one State that actually tried to address this issue.

We do not make your job any easier because we do not fully fund the work that needs to be done.

But we are not allowing you to make the kind of progress that you ought to be able to make.

Instead of trying to kill the Affordable Care Act, we will find ways, in a bipartisan way, working with the administration to fix the problems that need to be fixed.

For this country to meet its climate and clean air goals, we must have nuclear in the energy mix.

Well, those are great, and we appreciate every one of them and want to follow-up with you.

The administration's budget had some things in it that I thought were very good and maybe some that were less appealing.

Do you agree that improving the IRS budget could improve its capabilities to actually carry out its mission?

What I would like to do, I want to talk a little bit about the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

I call that our 'to-do list.'