Kelly Ayotte

Thank you. Thank you so much. I know all of our thoughts and prayers are with you for your courage.

we're all appalled at what's happened to the Weeks family, and we want to make sure we get those who have committed this horrific crime and hold them accountable.

Oh, it puts people at risk. So I would hope that----

So it's misleading in a--it's bigger.

Thank you for being willing to be at this hearing today to help other parents so that they don't have to go through this.

I think it can also help you understand what you need to do to protect yourself, too.

Right, because once you've been victimized once--I have to say, my uncle was a victim of tax-related fraud too, and he wasn't just victimized once. It was twice.

I have legislation filed on that piece, and I think we'll save billions of dollars if we take the step that TIGTA has recommended on that.

This issue of the pilot, you notified 25,000 taxpayers when you learned that their Social Security number may have been misused.

And finally, I hope that any time the IRS knows that someone's information is being misused, that they will notify them and that will be something that is adopted for all taxpayers.

Not to have to deal with it. Who wants to deal with the IRS, right?

So it's not one year but they have that protection if they want to have it going forward.

So you were never assigned one point of contact.

Taxpayers need to know and be comfortable that they're going to get treated fairly no matter who they are and no matter what political party they belong to.

I hope from this hearing we can have some follow-up to what Mr. Walker is dealing with, to help professionals help their clients to solve these problems.

It's very important to hear the perspective of what are the difficulties that taxpayers are facing.

Just so we're clear, when we're talking about filters, or we're talking about how do we stop up-front...

It's important in the sense that people, when they're interacting with the IRS, you have a tremendous amount of power, and it can be very intimidating.

Mr. President, if you care about our veterans... it seems like our veterans deserve action on this immediately by the President of the United States.

we actually introduced a piece of legislation that if the positions were not filled within 210 days, the authority to fill would then be transferred to Congress

the notion that the VA would be more focused on identifying the whistleblowers versus the underlying problems I think just demonstrates Exhibit A of what we are dealing with

I support the USF High Cost fund program as long as those funds are really targeted to unserved areas.

New Hampshire citizens only receive 37 cents back on the dollar of what they put in overall in the Universal Service Fund.

I rise today to speak about a very important issue to my State of New Hampshire, and that is American trade and our ability to create more jobs in New Hampshire and in the United States of America by giving our businesses the opportunity…

the President has said he will veto it. The defense authorization received 71 votes in the Senate.