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“I appreciate the gentleman's courtesy. I am pleased that the House will deal with the repeal this week. I was honored to be the principal cosponsor with my good friend, Wally Herger, of the Ways and Means Committee and to have a bipartisan effort to move this legislation forward. I didn't vote for this bill in 2005, in the first place. And I have been working to fix it ever since the impact was revealed to us. Tax compliance is an important goal. We have somewhere in the neighborhood of $200 billion to $300 billion a year that is owed to the Federal Government to meet our obligations and reduce burdens on others that is not paid. But this bill is decidedly not the approach to take. My good friend, Congressman Hanna, a freshman Republican from upstate New York, has an excellent op-ed in today's Roll Call that outlines how onerous it is from his perspective of having been a small contractor. There are three points that I think ought to be made as we go forward. First of all, we got this bill because we didn't follow regular order in 2005. I don't think there was ever a hearing before our Ways and Means Committee that talked about this bill that allowed contractors and small businesses to be able to explain the impact. I am very pleased that I think Chairman Camp is committed to trying to follow regular order in this Congress, unlike what happened in 2005. The second point is that this reveals a flaw in the CBO calculation. I'm not faulting CBO. They're following their rules.…”