On the recordOctober 10, 2007
this won't be the first or last time that debate on the floor comes on disagreements of policy or well-crafted rhetoric that goes to the extreme of bringing forth one's position. But I think that my colleague, Mr. Brady, and others who have spoken in the aspect that private collection has worked in the portion that has been assigned in their mission as they get underway, that the complexity of collecting taxes of the tax gap, which, if you recognize the tax gap as a challenge of revenue, one that this Congress very quickly and gladly put forth, that $1 billion of collections through private collection agencies would be achieved, and as we now embark on that, we have listened to tough language and rhetoric, and I sat through most of those public hearings, crafting today the reflection of what they thought they heard in those hearings. I think that if we look at results as we move towards the opportunity of seeing private collection, because one thing that has been omitted, if I am not mistaken, regardless of what this body does, the other body will have a serious challenge in seeing legislation passed, and there is a Presidential veto that says that it will not occur.
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