Tom Graves

Clearly, Mr. Shulman did not know, either misled the committee, or knew it and didn't tell the committee the truth.

So we know that something has occurred here and yet we hear there is this long review process and yet no one has been held accountable.

Is resignation accountability? Is that what you are telling the American people?

My constituents are furious. They are angry about what has occurred at the IRS.

I think we have all looked at the facts and we recognize that what has happened here has really shaken the trust of the American people in the IRS and in its ability to be fair and impartial.

We simply cannot allow the IRS or anyone else to waste precious tax dollars on improper, maybe even illegal, practices.

I am absolutely appalled at the apparent waste of taxpayer dollars on frivolous conferences.

We will not tolerate another political enemy's list.

The alleged targeting of conservative organizations applying for tax exempt status is a shameful violation of the intent of the Constitution.

We cannot, in good conscience, continue to provide hard-earned taxpayers' dollars to the IRS and have them use those funds to abuse the rights of American citizens

We are spending too much time trying to figure out if someone said do it, rather than why it was done.

Mr. Chairman, I know my time has expired, could the President show us $1.2 trillion in cuts, aside from new revenues, aside from his budget, and say this was the other half of the deal that I was proposing in December?

So where are the $1.2 trillion in cuts, that 2 for 1? Where is that? I have not seen that proposal.

But it was very imbalanced previously, if I remember right. All tax increases, and, in fact, more government spending, no reduction in the size of government or reduction in spending whatsoever.

Most importantly, we want to make sure it doesn't happen again. We want to help you help us all figure out some way that we can restore the trust of the American people in the IRS.

The American people are feeling tax increases. They are feeling those tax increases, and they are going to feel that tax increases of ObamaCare in a pretty immediate sense.

Dodd-Frank established the policy that it is unacceptable for banks to be too big to fail.

Dodd-Frank was supposed to address the 'too big to fail,' and, in fact, I guess the five largest money centers have increased in size over the last couple of years.

The sun is not taxed; that is the winner in all of this, right?

That was a bold proposal to bring government back within its parameters it should be in.

In fact, we should be supporting plans that direct us towards a balanced budget, unlike the President who has no plan to do that.

For every dollar you give us, we save somebody $7 or we create $7 of economic development.

How do we bring our Federal Government to a balanced budget environment?

But going on the fifth year of trillion dollar deficits, this is not the path that we need to be on.

It is almost--to me appears to be a deference to other agencies, other departments, other areas that must take responsibility for all of this crazy spending that is going on in Washington.