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

This is an issue that cries out to be addressed.

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.

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

I call that our 'to-do list.'

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).

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

One of my goals for as long as I am here is to ratchet down that oversight and to give them at least a little bit of relief.

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

Too often, border security discussions begin and end with how to create more and better barriers at our Southern Border.

I believe that is a legitimate concern and I think there is middle ground to be found.

I certainly want to say, I want to stop for a minute, Tom Udall has left the room, but you all just tell him I said, bravo.

I think there was effort, and successful effort, to address each of those points.

I think some additional work on that would be appropriate.

As we say in Delaware, the only two words in Latin I know are carpe diem, or Carper diem, seize the day.

maybe those three Cs, communicate, collaborate and compromise, maybe we are about ready to seize the day.

thank you for the way you have conducted ourself in this role as our chairman, particularly with respect to this issue.

David, thank you for your patience in working with me and a lot of other folks.

The best answer I have ever gotten to that question is the two Cs. The two Cs. Communicate and compromise.

last month one of my colleagues on this committee, Senator Toomey from the neighboring State of Pennsylvania--which was once part of Delaware--and I introduced legislation.

I view this legislation as the beginning of a dialogue, not the end, on how to reform and improve the Federal tax policy with respect to research.

If you had been in Delaware, a citizen of Delaware, and you called my office or Senator Chris Coons' office or Congressman John Carney's, we would have been all over this, all over this on your behalf.

What should we do differently? Those of us who serve here in Congress, we serve you and the people in all 50 States.

I want you to drill down on that point.