Peter Roskam

What was promised to the American public by the President of the United States was you get to keep your physician.

I am putting you on notice, this Committee intends to uphold the 1998 Act and we are going to follow through on it.

The IRS is claiming to an absurd, Kafkaesque level, that somehow this needs to be protected.

This is junk. This is junk. This has no meaning.

You have to release this information so that it can be publicly discussed.

The entire section 6103 question should be set aside.

Our country is at a tipping point right now.

The authority has been abused.

My constituents are afraid of guys like you.

What I am hearing from a Tier 1 rehab facility in my district is sort of the--really the heartache of stories of, look, we can't care for this person, who desperately needs our help, based on our census.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and witnesses, thanks for your time and your expertise today.

I think you have got a strong running start at it today with this hearing.

Now, Ms. Martinek, as we are listening and we hear about these First Amendment rights of yours, cumulatively, that have been trampled, there is something particularly egregious, I think, about the first of our first freedoms--that is, our…

But, look, history is filled with this story. And it always works out well when those who are entrusted with responsibility--that is us--listen to the complaints of the public, sort out fact from fiction, and then do our work.

You know, the question before us today is, who decides who gets to participate in the public square? Is it bureaucrats, or is it the American people?

I find it incredibly ironic, you know, on the one hand you are arguing today that the IRS is not corrupt, but the subtext of that is you are saying, look, we are just incompetent.

He was deeply grateful for the U.S. participation. And it is an incredible win for the U.S. as well.

It is an opportunity for us to share in technology; share in, essentially, the fruits of this product.

This is exactly the type of thing that I think the United States should be involved in.

I am here to congratulate and thank the committee for your past support for the U.S.-Israeli missile defense cooperation and to urge your consideration of that continued support.

It is incumbent upon us, if we are going to be dealing with the physician shortage that is looming, we have got to figure out a way to bring the joy of medicine back into medicine.

There is one statistic that I think it is important for us to be mindful of, and that is provided to us by the Association of American Medical Colleges. And they project that we are going to be facing a physician shortage in 2020--which is…

I come from a family with three siblings who are physicians. And what I have observed is that the joy of going in to medicine has been--largely been ground out, basically, by these larger systems.

I feel like Tevye here in Fiddler on the Roof. On the one hand and on the other hand.

The long-term discussion on Medicare is a discussion that continues to, I think, get everybody's attention.