Mike Crapo

The Secretary, the Deputy Secretary, and the CMS Administrator must carefully evaluate how best to use the resources available to them.

The COVID-19 pandemic has raised the salience of the Department.

We must carefully evaluate our response to the pandemic and implement appropriate reforms based on the lessons we have learned.

I think it is one of the best-working pieces of Medicare, and we should do all we can to take advantage of it.

This appears to be a statutory problem in many cases that prevents novel approaches to creating more seamless, harmonized insurance markets for patients.

Waivers are an essential tool for States, allowing them to tailor insurance programs to fit the needs of their patients.

I am deeply concerned by the current administration's approach to Medicaid waivers that were granted in the last administration.

The past 12 months have brought unprecedented challenges not only for the American people, but also for the Internal Revenue Service.

Many lower-income and rural individuals and families do not have access to the Internet.

The reason I asked that question is because often in the political discussion of this, what we see in the media at least, is this notion that there are so-called 'loopholes' that taxpayers are taking advantage of.

If congressional intent was really to get these advance payments out at all costs as soon as possible, then the logical approach would have been to simply provide an extra bonus in the Economic Impact Payment of each qualifying low-income…

I am left with the impression that the aggressive July 1st payment deadline imposed by congressional Democrats will be challenging to meet by an IRS staff that is already stretched thin.

Finally, we are now approaching 2 years since Congress passed the Taxpayer First Act, an important bipartisan measure that will enhance taxpayer protections, modernize the IRS's organizational structure, and improve its customer service…

Confusion has also been generated because of the massive fraud in unemployment compensation programs.

I am extremely concerned about the reports of a backlog of millions of tax returns from last year's filing season that have not yet been processed.

Further, IRS call center wait times remain unacceptably long, and many taxpayers have been sent confusing automated notices indicating that they have not yet filed their return, when in fact it was filed but has not yet been processed by…

The statutory corporate income tax rate is critical to the United States' competitiveness in the global market.

We have an ongoing debate here in Congress over our tax extenders, as we have come to call them.

I appreciate how the Treasury Department and bipartisan tax leaders in Congress have consistently spoken with one voice.

I challenge anyone to reasonably argue that we should return to the pre-TCJA international tax landscape.

Before the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, we shared a common concern for the many threats to the U.S. corporate tax base.

I believe Section 602(c)(2)(A) is unnecessary and harmful to states and territories, and have introduced S. 743, the State Fiscal Flexibility Act, to eliminate the problematic and legally questionable provision.

This is an issue that needs immediate clarity.

The last thing we should do is put States in a predicament where they could lose the funding that was authorized by Congress to help them just because they want to manage their fiscal policy in a way that might include some reduction of…

I want to encourage you to be very restrictive in terms of the application of this prohibition and give the maximum flexibility to States and local communities as they administer these funds.