Political Quotes

“Madam President, last year, I introduced a handful of bills that would help the IRS do its job better. One of those bills is called the IRS Customer Service Improvement Act. This bill simply says that IRS staffers cannot perform any union tasks during the tax season, which seems to make sense. It doesn't keep them from doing it through the rest of the year. It is just not during the busy tax season. According to the Treasury, in fiscal year 2019, 1,400 Treasury employees used over 350,000 hours of taxpayer-funded union time. It cost $17 million. Of course, that is kind of like chump change in this day and age. Back in Indiana, $17 million is a lot of money. It should be everywhere. Of these employees, 350 of the jobs were IRS customer service representatives and 204 were IRS agents. The American public deserves out of our Agencies, I think, service better than that. We can debate how much money the IRS needs to do its job, but we need commonsense policies like this to where we are not trying to restrict what already, to many, would seem unusual--that when you are on the dime, when you are being paid by the Federal Government, you maybe shouldn't be able to do union activities at the same time. Anyway, a lot of things don't make sense here. This will immediately add value to the American taxpayer. The IRS is warning Americans to prepare for delays and long hold times when filing their taxes this year. I would say that most folks would say that you need improvement.…”