James Traficant: “Yes, I have been aggressive on some of these issues, and the gentlewoman from Connecticut has accommodated me under a…”

“Yes, I have been aggressive on some of these issues, and the gentlewoman from Connecticut has accommodated me under a powerful strain of opposition at times from the Internal Revenue Service. Two provisions I worked hard for, as cited by the gentlewoman from Connecticut [Mrs. Johnson]. No. 1, after a matter has been adjudicated, a taxpayer can in fact go after those attorney fees and costs and, in fact the burden of proof after adjudication is thus switched to the IRS to justify and maintain their position for going after the taxpayer in the first place. That is a good first step, my colleagues. I have no complaints with that, and I commend you and thank you for doing something I could not get a Congress to do over the last four terms. The second one says that right now there is a cap of $100,000 when an IRS agent violates the rights of a taxpayer. In my provision in here it increases that cap to $1 million, and I think $1 million will get their attention.”