Bob Kerrey: “I have the amendment now in front of me. I did not earlier. The $9.7 million comes from the delay required by the act in…”

“I have the amendment now in front of me. I did not earlier. The $9.7 million comes from the delay required by the act in implementing field restructuring of the Internal Revenue Service. We have not passed that delay yet. That delay was added as an amendment. It has not been enacted yet. I did receive notification from Secretary Rubin that he is concerned about a delay in reorganization. I do not know, perhaps they are not going to support it. It was in the IRS recommendations that they wanted to do this reorganization. To be clear on this, or attempt to be clear on this, the reorganization effort itself has not been fully justified to me. A reason we put the amendment on, asking for delay, was for the purpose of provoking a full justification from the standpoint of the mission of the IRS, as well as customer service of the IRS. We have some problems already with their 800 numbers and we want to make sure that this reorganization was both cost justified and was not going to produce a deterioration in service. The second area is one that I must say, if the administration supports this, really flies in the face with things they have been talking to our committee about every single time they have come up. Mr. President, $11.6 million from administration and other savings in tax law enforcement activities--we cut back tax law enforcement activities from the levels that they requested.”