Carl Levin actually said...

"The facts are mighty clear to me that loopholes in our tax laws and regulations allow many companies, including Apple, to shift enormous amounts of income from this country to other countries where th..."

"If a shell entity is incorporated in a foreign tax jurisdiction, can it be disregarded for U.S. tax purposes?"

"Do we have or do you have an obligation to stop multinational corporations from shifting income to tax haven jurisdictions?"

"It is not right, to leave that decision, it seems to me, the way it is decided so unilaterally, that a company can shift its value to a place---to a tax haven, which is what Ireland is."