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

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

No one should have been targeted. No one should have been singled out for any bad treatment.

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.

there are consequences to the fact that we are cutting this budget, your budget all the time.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.