I believe the most recent tax change... have actually simplified the process of filing and paying income taxes.

I have paid taxes since April 15, 1959, when I made $40 a week as a surveyor's assistant.

I am a cosponsor of that legislation.

I hope as Commissioner of the IRS you will work towards completing that task to moving towards simplification of the system.

We are getting into a war that is going to cost lots of billions of dollars.

I appreciate what you've said about it, and I also appreciate the points that have been raised by many of the Members.

I was pleased with Bob Casey to sponsor the Monograph Reform bill, which we passed in this Committee a couple of months ago, which I think is going to be a contributor to lowering costs.

I certainly don't have the answer, but I know the problem is desperate, and we need to do whatever we can to start developing, and then we need to encourage it.

It's not going to go away, because it's entirely too expensive, and there are some big problems.

I was pleased that President Trump mentioned speeding up the approval process for over-the-counter drugs in his Rose Garden statement on pharmaceutical costs.

I think that Senator Bennet was right on target in talking about the confusion in the pricing of pharmaceutical services.