"It's not appropriate for us to micromanage the state for the sake of climate change, or anything else for that matter."
"We celebrate when Congress manages to avoid shutting down the government. I think we can set the bar a little higher than that."
"I've heard a proposal to create an expensive new federal climate bureaucracy, doling out billions in green handouts to large corporations."
"The facts haven't taken me to that point where I can say that the president's guilty of anything."
"Democrats abandoned the bipartisan focus on customer service in pursuit of partisan enforcement first efforts."
"If you care about debt and deficits you should want a well-funded, well-functioning IRS."
"A few years ago, however, IRS reform had strong bipartisan support."
"When it comes to holding known tax cheats accountable, I'll take a back seat to no one."
"Efforts to paint one side of the aisle as friendly to tax avoidance, or tax evasion, ignores that taxpayers of all types attempt to minimize their tax liability in a legal way."
"Let's resist the siren call of the magic money machine, and put taxpayer services first."
"We all want to tax cheats to be held accountable, however, we must first help the majority of taxpayers who want to do the right thing."
"The proponents of this funding tout this funding as necessary to increase taxpayer services."