Lloyd Doggett

I believe the IRS should dedicate more resources to attempting to close the international tax gap.

Cooperation, not competition, is the solution to the offshore tax abuse problem.

This hearing provides us the first opportunity to look more closely at the tools to address this issue.

We would be much better off using the tax system in trying to get these moneys back into the hands of people most directly affected.

The cost of inaction, the economic cost, can be disastrous for our economy.

Just say no or its companion, Just say higher taxes, or its cousin, Just say higher energy cost, is not a policy.

Just relying on the goodwill of polluters at home and abroad will not solve this program, is not a solution.

Unfortunately, I think it is a much weaker military than he got from President Clinton, but nevertheless, it is and always should be the strongest military in the world.

Well, neither acquisition standards nor good science seems to apply there.

American taxpayers cannot continue to pay for an unlimited Pentagon budget just because Members of Congress are fearful.

The Congressional Budget Office has issued a report that there is an alternative to placing permanent U.S. bases in the Czech Republic in Poland for missile defense.

Neither acquisition standards nor good science seems to apply there.

I think that our taxpayers ought to be getting more money--more benefit from the dollars being spent there than we have.

I agree fully with one of my Republican colleagues earlier who said that President Obama has received the strongest military in the world from President Bush.

I appreciate your efforts here and in the Armed Services Committee as well to literally get us more bang for our buck when it comes to this matter.

I just don't see any way to defend channeling more money to the Texas Department of Transportation, given the arrogance with which it has approached the transportation needs in our State.

Your State has certainly been a leader in this area at a time that the Federal Government, under the Bush administration, did nothing for families facing a health care crisis.

I think that is probably the way we will handle it, is with a reserve fund.

There is a tremendous amount of money, often for the same purpose; the American opportunity tax credit is a tax expenditure that I support, but I think it has to be continually evaluated.

I know that your plans, and this is so different; in fact, it is a total reversal of the last 8 years because you have a plan that is based on science rather than just based on rhetoric and ideology.

Isn't it also accurate that those who basically propose to do nothing about climate change will bring to the economy very significant costs from failing to address what you have described as the key threat to our planet?

This whole question of international tax dodging is extremely important.

I do think that the Administration understands that, to get economic recovery, we need educational advancement.

Congressman Lloyd Doggett (H.R 1265) introduced March 2, 2009.

I will at this point withdraw my reservation, but would want noted by the reservation my concern as a former member of the Judiciary about the precedent-setting nature of this. This is the fourth time since 1825, and I just ask that we…