Mike Johnson

The law requires that I turn them over to HHS, sir.

You know, my constituents and I refuse to accept that in years of record-high IRS budgets, you know, you wouldn't let us refuse to give you information on our tax returns, the IRS destroyed employee emails every 6 months just to save…

Americans have been waiting for the whole truth and we hope to get it today. It doesn't sound like we are getting it.

Absolutely not, this should not have been done.

I can't say what I want to say. You know, defenders of the President's health care law claim the problems we are talking about today are predictable challenges in implementing new programs.

I have introduced a bill, H.R. 3993, the Critical Access Hospital Relief Act of 2014, which would repeal the regulation.

I hope you all can support a bill that I have out there, H.R. 2027, which would establish a level playing field for physician-owned hospitals and ensure that patients will continue to have a choice in where they receive their health care.

Physician-owned hospitals demonstrated they thrive in delivering high-quality, low-cost care.

The value-based purchasing program which was enacted as part of ObamaCare is the Federal Government's most extensive effort yet to hold hospitals financially accountable for patient outcomes.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

It is hard for my constituents and folks across the country to understand how this could happen.

I have introduced a bill, No Bonuses for Tax Delinquent IRS Employees Act, to help you restore the public trust in the IRS.

Do you agree that the IRS workers who owe taxes should not be getting performance-related awards?

Public trust in the IRS is most important, their most important asset.

Well, I am not sure about that. But I want you to know that both Lloyd Doggett, who is a Democrat, by the way, and I agree that something needs to be done.

When are you going to do something about it? I would like to know what your plan is and when CMS will try to do the right thing.

Does CMS support our bipartisan bill, H.R. 781, the Medicare Identify Theft Prevention Act of 2013? Yes or no?

Well, when are you going to do that?

Do you care about protecting seniors from identity theft?

Mr. McDermott, I agree with you. They refuse to do anything.

Well, that is not very convincing. I think it is going to be tough to assure every American that their most private information is safe from criminals because they are attacking us every day.

Well, but under this law, you are giving those numbers to your employer. Now we just give them to the IRS when we file our tax return. How are you going to protect those numbers?

Well, how are we going to protect them? You know we are losing them.

How many Americans will have their Social Security numbers collected, stored, and reported?

One of my long-standing priorities has been to protect American Social Security numbers.