. . . we need to continue to work on FATCA compliance. It's too bad that we couldn't put an extra `T' on it. Then it would say FATCAT, which would be such an appropriate acronym for it.

My Republican colleagues and I may disagree on what makes a fair tax code, but we very much agree that everyone should pay what they owe.

We need to continue to work on FATCA compliance.

Ramped-up enforcement is essential, but it is no substitute for addressing the fundamental injustice in the tax code.

One reason for the gulf between the official estimate and Commissioner Rettig's is the bad job the official estimate does incorporating the so-called international tax gap.

Let me thank all the witnesses. This has been really, really helpful.

I am on the Budget Committee where we look at 10-year increments, and your testimony that there is a 10-year increment out there of taxes owed but not paid of $7.5 trillion is pretty stunning.

My No Tax Breaks for Outsourcing Act would end the incentive for multinational corporations to shift profits offshore.

So one thing I will note as I close out my questioning: we have heard testimony today that 36 percent of missing tax revenues of the tax gap, 36 percent of that comes from 1 percent of the taxpayers.

We should start with the multi-pronged approach of the Biden administration.

Typical American taxpayers don't have the option to hide money abroad, so the wealthy who cheat on their taxes through offshoring also worsen income and wealth inequality.

I see that it is not easy, but I think it is important to nail down the starting place that we are at right now.

I would hope and expect that would be honored.

I am here to speak on the upcoming methane Congressional Review Act matter and speak in support of overturning the Trump misrule regarding the problem of methane emissions. Let's just start by setting the stage that about one-quarter of…

I share the concerns of many of my colleagues who have heard from our constituents about a variety of problems that have followed from the transition to pandemic-safe remote work by Social Security.

I would encourage you to try to get an answer to us within the window that the chairman is going to provide for questions for the record.

Well, you could, I think, help us if you could make a recommendation, again in the QFR window of this hearing.

Have you adapted that for Zoom? I mean, we are adapting everything for Zoom.

Can we change that legislatively? Or is the clock going to run out as you come back to work?

The Trump administration over and over again failed to follow science and tried to replace people who understood science with people who were shills for polluting industries.

if at the end of the day, nobody understands the cause of all of this, you haven't done your jobs.

I urge you not to overlook the why.

Yes, there is no single--it is silver buckshot, not silver bullet, I think is the way to describe it.

they ran a big covert operation against their own country to try to prevent the action that we are trying to push for now.

I think those of us who support carbon capture and removal as an essential way to safety in all of this need to think about it in those terms.