On the recordJuly 14, 2014
This amendment is completely irresponsible and unnecessary. My colleague may be angry at the Internal Revenue Service, but defunding the very entities that would supply the information he is requesting is not going to get him that information any faster. These offices actually have nothing to do with setting a policy with regard to email retention. This amendment is simply another attempt to find a conspiracy where the Republican Party has been unable to find one previously. At this point, the IRS has spent at least $14 million providing hundreds of thousands of pages of information to the committees of jurisdiction here, and, instead of providing them with more money to provide more information, the majority wants to cut the IRS further. This is not a well-thought-out or responsible amendment, and I urge my colleagues to oppose it because it does exactly the opposite of what my colleague claims it would do. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
