Charles Rangel: “Well, I do not want to get involved in how the bill came to the floor, but the gentleman is asking the people that are…”

“Well, I do not want to get involved in how the bill came to the floor, but the gentleman is asking the people that are responsible for doing what we tell them to do. We are the ones that made their job difficult, and the gentleman and I agree on that, and so does the chairman. We have beat up on them because they did it poorly, but it was our complex legislation that they had to administer. The gentleman and I are now seeking to improve the Code after, as the mumblers would say on the floor, after 37 years of Democratic fiascoes. We have had a similar extension of 3 years of Republican fiascoes. Now we are saying, let us clean it up. I share with the gentleman that unless we attempt to do this in a bipartisan way, it will be America that loses. I just want to compliment the gentleman for the direction that he is going. I hope when we say we have to work together to scrap the Code, as the gentleman likes to say, or to pull up the IRS by the roots, that we are talking about pulling up this Tax Code by the roots and replacing it with something that is fair and equitable.”