Charles Rangel: “I do have to agree on this bill that the chairman of the committee as well as the Senate have shown an extreme…”

“I do have to agree on this bill that the chairman of the committee as well as the Senate have shown an extreme bipartisan effort to bring about changes that were needed in the Internal Revenue Service. I really enjoyed working with the chairman and the Senate, because we got away from the rhetoric of pulling out the code by the roots, beating up on the dedicated public servants, and started working with the commission which the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Coyne) of the Committee on Ways and Means and the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Portman) had worked on, working with the administration and the other body to see what we could do to bring about change, and through hard work and mutual respect, we were able to do it. Not only do we bring in professionals to provide oversight, have additional management flexibility, but we expanded electronic tax filing and worked with the administration to make certain that the oversight board had representation not only from the private sector but from the employees. Taxpayers' rights were protected. Innocent spouse relief was given.”