Orrin Hatch

We appreciate the input of Senator Bennet and Senator Warner.

How many of the 7.1 million enrollees the President has touted already had health insurance before the Affordable Care Act went into effect?

The administration has made at least 20 unilateral changes to Obamacare without consulting Congress.

Thank you, Senator Grassley, on this point.

A conservative estimate of how much the administration has spent to date on efforts relating to enrollment total over $1.3 billion.

Are you going to delay the open enrollment beyond March 31st? Your response was, 'No, sir.'

Thank you, Senator Isakson, for your work on this.

Still, the scope of the proposed merger between Comcast and Time Warner raises issues that deserve attention.

Robert Bork taught us that the overriding objective of antitrust law is to promote consumer welfare.

Absent clear evidence of market failure, consumers benefit when the government allows free markets to allocate resources in the most efficient manner possible.

The more I look into this, the more I worry about the problems that are involved.

Now, some have expressed concern that regulation will drive unethical preparers underground, turning them into what have been referred to here as ghost preparers who are very difficult to discover and shut down.

They said they had given us most of the documents, and then we found out that they had not.

We are trying to wrap this up as quickly as we can. It has been slow.

The American people deserve to have an IRS which is free from political bias.

What is the IRS doing to educate the public about how to select a competent and ethical return preparer?

These regulations should go away entirely, and Commissioner Koskinen has the power to make that happen.

Among the approaches to solving the problem of incompetent and unethical paid preparers that we will hear about today is government regulation.

Our income tax system relies heavily on good faith, voluntary compliance.

The sheer complexity of our tax system requires the majority of Americans to seek the services of a paid preparer.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this timely hearing.

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While further reduction of trans fat in the food supply is important, I am concerned about the specific course FDA utilized to meet its goal.