On the recordApril 15, 2015
I thank Chairman Ryan for yielding. Congressman Holding's idea is a great idea, and we should enact it with dispatch and get it done with. And the reason is, according to the IRS, their 2014 data book--this is published by the Internal Revenue Service--they have said that they have spent 10,000 hours reviewing 4,000 applications for 501(c)(4) organizations, which sounds sort of interesting. Except there is a plot trap. And you know what the plot trap is? They only said ``no'' to eight of them. So, said another way, the way Peter Roskam thinks about the world, that is 10,000 hours of a complete waste of time. That is 10,000 hours from an organization that is saying, Oh, we are just begging for mercy, and we are not able to meet these claims, and we are not able to make these calls. Now, I have got an email here that the Commissioner sent out to all the IRS employees at the beginning of this year. It is January 13, 2015. And you know how normally, around a dinner table, when people say, Hey, you know, it is getting really tough out there. We are going to have to do what? We are going to have do more with less. That is what we do, as Americans, don't we? We do more with less. That is who we are as a people. But that is not the Internal Revenue Service. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. They don't disappoint. You know what the Internal Revenue Service says? We are going to do less with less. We are going to do less with less.…
