Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I will be brief. I know colleagues have been waiting as well.

I think folks at Crooked River understand how serious this is as it relates to fire.

This stonewalling has gone on too long.

I wrote a bipartisan tax bill, and I thought that it would generate the kind of behavior-changing activity that would be good for our economy.

The President's personal lawyer and his former campaign chairman are now confessed or convicted felons.

A lot of these rainbow and unicorn tax fantasies came straight from the White House.

the tax cuts will put a trillion dollars--over a trillion dollars--on the national credit card.

I hope sometime soon to get home again to talk to the communities that have been getting clobbered.

Among the middle class, I have folks who say 'we got a little bit, hardly notice it.'

the Trump administration--particularly when it comes to tax--has proven to be a purveyor of economic fiction.

the tax cuts will cost more than a trillion dollars.

Yet the Trump administration and the Trump Treasury Department continue to stonewall this committee's attempts to investigate these matters of criminal tax evasion, corruption, and foreign influence in our elections.

It is discriminatory. It seems to me it is based on nothing but intolerance, and the bottom line is, you are going to deny a lot of kids the opportunity to grow up in safe and loving homes.

It seems to me it is clear that this is going to take some work before we get this out of Committee.

These big fires, they do not know any kind of boundaries.

As I indicated, we don't take a back seat to anybody in terms of reducing fire risk.

I want to work closely with the chairman... we are going to go gangbusters between now and the end of the Senate to work in a bipartisan way wherever we can.

the Trump Treasury Department is continuing to stonewall this committee's attempts to investigate these matters of criminal tax evasion, corruption, and foreign influence in our elections.

this administration often seems to be allergic to facts.

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