We want to derail this ill-advised House proposal to not make things worse.
the number one issue in the confirmation hearings for the Commissioner was this overpayment question.
We Democrats know that the ultra-wealthy are avoiding nearly $2 trillion in taxes every ten years.
I just want to make it clear that my door is open.
I am here as Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle...
I said everybody has got to pay their fair share. No special exemptions for billionaires.
it would make it harder to do the bipartisan work on overpayments that we talked about in the Finance Committee.
the question for the Congress and for the Senate is do we want to take the steps that the Chairman outlined...
I think in a democracy it's important that our laws be transparent and public to the maximum extent possible.
To me, this isn't how legislation should be written, and it adds to distrust.
This is going to be an ongoing kind of process between, you know, sources and methods--got to be secret--and public law ...