Gerry Connolly actually said...

Ryan Crocker today was interviewed, the former two-time Bush Ambassador and one-time Obama Ambassador, and he decried the tone of the discus...

So, given our obsessive concern about the fiscal situation and the National debt, Congress has, in fact, increased IRS's budget, given that ...

Doesn't that, in fact, add more weight to the role of the IRS, not less?

It most certainly is within the purview; in fact the responsibility of the IRS.