Tom Carper

Just use some common sense.

We believe, for every extra dollar that we would be provided in resources, we could pay back $4.

I never understood why we are so intent on reducing the amount of resources we provide to the IRS to do their job.

The Congressional Budget Office would suggest that it is going to make the deficit a lot bigger by, maybe, trillions of dollars.

I do not think they have done it yet, but I understand the Administration is going to put out a tax proposal--tax reform proposal today.

Yes. If you take inflation, you are closer to your 20, 23 percent there.

Yes, so it is close to 10 percent.

So down $900 million compared to how many years ago?

You have been asking, the IRS has been asking for years, to make sure that the folks who are actually helping folks prepare tax returns are qualified and competent to do that.

For every dollar that we invest in the IRS, not only do we get better service for taxpayers as they prepare their taxes, but we also find that for every dollar we invest, we increase revenues by at least $4, maybe more.

I think that the IRS is doing, in a number of respects, in spite of all the hacks and the attacks, the cyberattacks, I think you are doing a better job.

Quitters never win, and winners never quit.

We need to get this done. This is crazy.

Two of them are extremely important tools in helping communities across our country comply with the Clean Water Act.

Again, congratulations to everybody, Mr. Chairman, to you and to everyone who was part of putting all this together;

It has been a good process, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank you and your staff, and all of our colleagues and the members of your staffs as well.

The other three Cs that we embrace in Delaware are communicate, compromise, collaborate.

Mr. Chairman, before everybody leaves, could I just say one other thing?

They always said the 80/20 rule, they focused on 80 percent of the stuff they agreed on.

To spend $15 to $25 billion, at a time when we have a budget deficit of over $400 billion, is unwise, is unneeded, and is unaffordable.

Walls work. I have been to Israel. They work. But, walls can be tunneled under and climbed over.

We are talking about spending money that we really do not have for a wall.

Just use some common sense. Just use some common sense.

We have an obligation, I think, a moral obligation to do our part.

I absolutely do not support cut funding to Federal agencies for cleanup of these lands.