"A smart reform now will not only allow us to seize new opportunities, but also to confront the rise of opportunists."
"Modernizing U.S. Customs laws is fast becoming of critical importance."
"every State is a border State in the context of fentanyl, because it's coming into every single State in massive amounts and in massive ways."
"I think we do need to fix it."
"The policies that have been enacted by President Biden's reckless tax and spending bill really are not going to be helpful in trying to regain the credibility of the American people for the agency."
"I want to know whether you are going to commit today that the plan will not allow this super-sized enforcement money to be utilized against people who make less than $400,000 per year."
"This is a shakedown of small business operators and middle-class families to pay for expensive, partisan policies, and it just gets very, very bothersome."
"If confirmed, Mr. Werfel, you must be the change agent we have long been promised."
"There's growing uncertainty about when or even if the IRS plan for spending the $80 billion will be publicly released."
"I want to get into that. From the IRS's own data, the two largest single components of the tax gap... are small businesses, small business income, and individual non-business income."
"I want to know whether there are any intentions at the IRS or any intention on your part to regulatorily seek to expand the ability of the IRS to literally invade and look into the bank accounts of Am..."