Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank Mr. Crowley for his work, his advocacy, and his willingness to make suggestions to improve this bill so we could enjoy unanimous support. We are in a very good situation on it. Let me just give you a little bit more color commentary, if I could, because I think it is important for us to recognize the role that we in this House play as a coequal branch of government pushing back on abuse when we see it in the executive branch, and this is part of our experience. So here is the back story: it occurred to us, Mr. Speaker, that these were certain cases--and I mentioned them a minute ago; I gave the names of these individuals a minute ago--that we had come to learn about. The IRS then subsequently changed their policy. But then it begs the question: What happens to the people, number one, that we don't know about who are still stuck in the system? So the IRS, in other words, said that we are not going to do this moving forward. What about the people that they had done this to? In other words, they had assets they had confiscated. So we ended up having another hearing, again, bipartisan. The result of that hearing, a result of a unanimous voice on the subcommittee itself, was that the IRS said: We are going to come up with a petition process.…”