On the recordAugust 12, 2022
Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I will say in response to the gentlewoman from Colorado (Mrs. Boebert) that this is typical of what the Republicans are doing. First of all, they are making up numbers. There is nowhere anywhere that shows that 87,000 new IRS agents are going to be hired in this bill. That is a totally fabricated number. The idea that they are armed--I know that Mrs. Boebert would like everybody to be armed, as they are in her restaurant, but that is not what IRS agents do. Mr. Speaker, I would implore my Republican colleagues to cut out the scare tactics, quit making things up, and debate the substance of this bill. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from California (Mr. Peters), a distinguished member of the Budget Committee.
