Ben Cardin actually said...

"I do not think we should let this go. I think we should work a little harder on that."

"First, we should look at our tax code and make it simpler and more predictable."

"This committee should be your advocate for adequate resources."

"if you had the additional resources, we would not only get better compliance--which is our responsibility, to make sure we have compliance--we would get greater revenue, which would help those taxpaye..."