Peter Roskam

We have an opportunity to do a good thing, and the good thing is this: to prohibit the Iranian regime from getting a product that is fungible militarily. One begins to ask oneself: What can that be, and how could the Congress be involved…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. _. None of the funds made…

Do you understand, sort of, the nature of the trick bag that you are putting the Congress and the American people in because you have not disclosed that information?

I want to get answers; you want to get answers; everybody wants to get answers.

This is not about poor people; this is about making sure an insurance carrier gets a subsidy.

And now, on an issue that is absolutely pivotal, that is a fulcrum between the executive and the legislative branch, you say in this memo 'I don't remember'? Is that your testimony today?

Just for the point of clarification, the Administration stipulated in the lawsuit that has been frequently cited here that notwithstanding the cost-sharing reduction program, it is the insurance carriers that are on the hook.

You are being passive-aggressive. You are being an obstructionist agency. And it is outrageous.

Your commitment is waning and underperforming. Good grief.

They are coming up with new legal standards here that don't even exist in the law.

The Administration, in the lawsuit, stipulated that the insurance companies are going to do this regardless.

Let me describe, I think, what the point of the hearing is.

The lengths we have had to go, in this investigation, clearly underscore the unprecedented level of obstruction by this Administration.

Defying the Constitution: The Administration's Unlawful Funding of the Cost Sharing Reduction Program.

Did you prepare in any way for this hearing?

You don't mean to tell me that you have to violate the Constitution in order to get this done.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Good fences make good neighbors.

I think I am the last speaker on this side, so I am prepared to close, but I will defer to the gentleman from Michigan if he wants to wind it up. I reserve the balance of my time.

Reclaiming my time, I agree. I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Tennessee (Mrs. Black) to give us more insight.

The gentleman from New York asked a provocative question. Here is why you don't want this type of capacity in the hands of the IRS, I would say, and it is this reason: there is a fundamental lack of trust. The IRS has run roughshod over…

One quick point. The gentleman said that it was a practical tool for auditing, and yet there was a lawsuit recently where the attorney general of California tried to disclose the Schedule B information. The Federal judge who struck down…

I want to thank Chairman Brady for his leadership in bringing this bill to the floor. Just to put this into context, let's focus in on what we are really talking about. Every year, tax exempt 501(c) organizations fill out a form 990, and…

The Administration recognizes that we have an incredible problem here.

That is not good enough. It is obtuse, it is evasive, it is condescending--not to us, but it is condescending to these people.