On the recordJuly 25, 2001
I am not going to bother with those, but I will later tonight offer an amendment that will kill bonuses to IRS brass. Now, the amendment, in order to be germane, had to be printed that it would kill all bonus incentives for the entire service. Let legislative history show that that is not my intention and, in conference, if it should pass, the Traficant amendment deals with the brass. Eighty percent of information given to taxpayers was wrong this last year by the Internal Revenue Service. Most of the audits they perform are on lower- and middle-income Americans. So when I offer that, the argument is going to be that Traficant wants to hurt everybody from getting bonuses. I do not, but to make it eligible, that is the way it reads now, and I would ask that if it passes, that the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), our distinguished leader here, to make those changes.
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