Political Quotes

“In reclaiming my time, I would appreciate the gentleman, on his own time, elaborating on this, and the gentleman is not answering. What would be the impact, as the gentleman said in his opening statement, if the money were not allocated to implement the Affordable Care Act? It is sort of a backdoor way via the budget process, which you can control, to defund the Affordable Care Act. The fact is, for those 7.3 million people who get the tax credit and for the over 17 million Americans who have received health care under the Affordable Care Act, being able to implement the law is customer service. I would think that my Republican friends would become very cranky if the bureaucracy in the IRS just decided that they weren't going to implement part of the law. So what the IRS has done within some areas that it does have budgetary discretion is to make sure that there are adequate people to try and implement these provisions. {time} 1245 Now, it is true that the Tax Code becomes more and more complex, but that is not the fault of the IRS. Those are the people who are charged with implementing what Congress does. Since I have been in Congress--and my Republican friends have been in charge most of this time--the Tax Code has become longer, more complex, even as they have cut back the resources to that critical agency. What business assaults its accounts receivable department?…”