Unfortunately, growing numbers of smart, well-prepared medical school graduates are fighting for a stagnant number of residency slots.

This is not something we could take lightly. Estimates indicate that by 2025 we will have a shortage of up to 95,000 doctors.

What I would suggest, again, is we'll get to the bottom of this and see to it that those moneys are restored to their rightful place with the citizen of the United States.

Well, Mr. Chairman, I think, if that is the case, we should inquire as to how we can access that information.

The key job of this committee is to determine wrongs or injustices and use all of our abilities address those wrongs and injustices.

I appreciate especially Mr. Smith's last question, because I think that pertains to two of the witnesses...

Yesterday, Mr. Roskam and I, Chairman Roskam and I, introduced bipartisan legislation to fix the law and prevent the seizures of bank accounts of law-abiding citizens.

no citizen or noncitizen should ever been treated differently because their voices were heard.

Yield myself such time as I may consume. We all agree that the IRS faces serious consumer service challenges and needs to be more responsive to the American taxpayer, but this bill is not a serious attempt at oversight of the IRS. In fact…

I yield myself an additional 15 seconds. Mr. Speaker, we are not having a hearing on this. We are not doing anything here on the floor to address this issue. Instead, we are taking up issues that, quite frankly, could have been on the…

I would inquire how much time is remaining on both sides. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from New York has 24\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentlewoman from South Dakota has 15\1/2\ minutes remaining.

What we are seeing today, in my opinion, is this Subcommittee is really searching for a problem where no problem exists.