José E. Serrano

I would strongly encourage the Treasury to take a look at those and seriously think about moving forward to implement them.

the easiest thing to tell this committee is, I don't want any more money.

We need to have a serious discussion about funding levels at the IRS.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Let me first do something totally, somewhat out of order, and that is to congratulate you on your chairmanship.

the IRS does not care who they get money from as long as they collect taxes.

We need to do our utmost to ensure that the IRS has the resources to do the job we in Congress have given them.

It is self-defeating to ask people to obey the law and then to reduce the number of people we have to ensure compliance.

I think all Members of Congress, Democrats and Republicans, were appalled by the inappropriate actions taken by the IRS

Our economic recovery is underway, but it is being hampered by sequestration.

Well, I appreciate that and I appreciate that approach.

In the past there were comments made to this Committee about this issue in the sense that in some cases it was not the individual who went in.

Couldn't we have an understanding in the future of how many folks have been doing that already?

we could have put in more money for the IRS for those who think they cannot do the job in yesterday's CR and we did not.

The Treasury Department plays a vital role in keeping our economy moving forward, our government functioning, and our financial system secure.

there is a behavior, if you will, in Congress these days to cut, cut, cut, cut, in my opinion, without really thinking what those cuts will do to our economy and to the future of this country.

There is no clearer way to promote more scandals than by cutting funding that could be used for oversight.

My main concern is that in this constant desire to cut, cut, cut, we do not invest.

If you cut discretionary spending to the levels that that budget would, it leaves you no choice.

I think that we should not go back to the days when 44 percent of the audits were being conducted on 17 percent of the people.

I find it difficult to believe that we encourage greater tax compliance with less money for the enforcement agents.

I can assure you that there are many members of Congress who would like to map out the future of the IRS.

I just thought, by the end of this week, hopefully, all Members of Congress should be celebrating the introduction of a bill, but certainly, I can tell you Mr. Diaz-Balart and I will be celebrating, which will be comprehensive immigration…

We need to ensure the integrity of both our tax system and our political system.

There is such a desire to cut the budget and to balance it that we are hindering the opportunity to invest in some areas.

Well, I would hope that we could continue to grow the program.