This is a scandal. This is an embarrassment.

So here is my question: If only 10 States are participating and we are losing $75 billion a year, according to the FBI, doesn't it follow that, if we had every State participating, that this gets better?

I thank the gentleman for yielding. My home State is Illinois. The State of Illinois, Mr. Chairman, is a delightful place. It is the ``Land of Lincoln'' and the birthplace of Ronald Reagan, but it is a fiscal basket case. From a fiscal…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, the Obama administration has done a clever thing over these past years, and that is to redefine things. They redefined the word ``balance,'' not to mean the traditional understanding of…

Wouldn't it be a good thing if we were to amend the law and you had that information and there were a special inspector general that had broad jurisdiction?

The Affordable Care Act, according to the Congressional Budget Office, is a $1.8-trillion expenditure.

Wouldn't it be great, Madam Secretary, if Dr. Price, in the question that he asked, if you were able to say, here is the answer, here is the answer, when he made the inquiry...

Do you think it encroaches on First Amendment?

Mr. Speaker, there is one thing worse than gridlock, according to my predecessor, Congressman Henry Hyde. The worst thing than gridlock is the greased chute of government. It is ironic that the very administration that jammed through the…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I draw your attention to H.R. 2531, the Protecting Taxpayers from Intrusive IRS Requests Act. Let me give you a quick summary, Mr. Speaker, of what the bill does. Let me give you an…

Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 2531) to prohibit the Internal Revenue Service from asking taxpayers questions regarding religious, political, or social beliefs. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The…