Ron Wyden actually said...

"let's look at ways to shore up our own house first before we start talking about approaches that could unravel some of these sacred Constitutional rights that Americans feel so strongly about."

"Wealthy tax cheats have proven that with enough attack dog lawyering, they can litigate the IRS into submission and rip off working taxpayers for big money."

"Even the most conservative estimates of the annual tax gap put it in the hundreds of billions of dollars a year."

"The IRS needs more resources to tackle this challenge, but it is only just beginning to recover from a decade of Republican budget cuts."