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On the recordSeptember 15, 2022
Mr. Speaker, if Joe Biden wants to keep producing more energy, we are giving him opportunities, but he says no. He said ``no'' many times, and he campaigned on that. We will continue to push to bring those bills to the floor. We are going to continue to push to bring bills to the floor to solve a lot of these problems that we have identified, and we have bills to address them. If the majority doesn't want to bring them up, I understand. That is the prerogative of the majority, but we are going to still keep talking about them. We are going to still keep pushing every opportunity we can to bring down inflation, to lower energy costs, and to address so many of these other problems that people are still facing today. If that single mom who is working as a waitress two shifts is going to be audited by some new IRS agent who is tasked, under the terms that we saw, with going out and generating that money, if the result of that is that she has to pay more money, it doesn't mean she is cheating on her taxes. If all of a sudden an auditor is coming after you, who knows what kind of pressure they are putting? But it is 87,000 more IRS agents tasked with going and generating not $20 billion. The $20 billion is just for the people making under $400,000. It is over $250 billion that some of the numbers show that they have to generate, meaning they are going to have to go out and find that from taxpayers. That doesn't mean every one of those people they audit is a tax cheat.…
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Steve Scalise
Republican · Louisiana

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