Jody Hice

Everywhere that we have built a fence, we have been effective.

We have to get immigration policy right, so the things that have happened at least statistically are reduced.

Immigration is a great benefit to this country and it is a basis of this country's success.

Illegal immigration dropped to next to nothing in San Diego.

What makes this tragedy and others like it so painful is that Ronald's murder was preventable.

Illegal immigration has had significant human cost. Too many Americans have been robbed of loved ones through crimes committed by criminal aliens who should not have been allowed in this country to begin with.

The wall should be built in a fiscally responsible way, and there are a variety of creative ways such as by using the seized assets of drug dealers to build it at little or no cost to the American taxpayer.

Many of our allies have been hurt because of this.

The estimates on that range from a little less than that. The $200 billion is kind of a middle-of-the-road estimate.

We've got a loss of $100- to $150 billion. We're only bringing in 870 million.

I have seen at least 20 problems with your subs. Please drop the hammer on these guys.

We've got thousands. And we don't have a clue, the quality of the job they are doing.

So poor oversight, which would result in poor quality.

If they would be lucky to get a gentleman's C, that would be probably deserving of a D or below.

I am absolutely convinced the IRS does not need--you don't have a resource problem; you have a waste problem.

I am quite confident that there are more people on official time now at the IRS than there were five years ago.

More than 60 percent could not get through the National Taxpayer Advocate phoneline that is the safety net.

Less than 10 percent of the callers whose returns were flagged as suspicious for possible identity theft, less than 10 percent were able to get through an IRS helpline.

In 2012, our reports show that the IRS approved 62 people to be 100 percent on official time as contact service representatives.

Mr. Hice. Is that legal?

We're creating a bureaucracy that's all on the shoulders of the American taxpayer.

I mean, this is an outrage to me to think that this is taking place.

I actually have come to more or less believe that the three real branches of our government are waste, fraud, and abuse.

I think it'd be wise for us to request that number from the Treasury just to have an idea of what we're dealing with here.

It seems like that would be information that not only you should have, but you would want to have.