Joe Manchin

Let me thank both of you for being willing to serve and your families for coming up and for your support.

You are going to be in a unique position to either change that direction or make sure that this country has reliability.

I will commit to you that I will spend that as wisely as I possibly can to move our domestic energy effort forward across all three fossil fuels--coal, oil and natural gas.

West Virginia has a history of producing energy for the rest of the country and NETL has played a big role in ensuring that we are striving to do it in cleaner, more efficient and more cost-effective ways.

I want to thank you for scheduling this hearing and for your work and support of our country's national lab system.

The proposed budget cuts to our national lab system are concerning to say the least.

I also want to thank Senator Heinrich for his leadership on the Energy Technology Maturation Act of 2017.

I was happy to work with Senator Capito on the Appropriations Committee to ensure that NETL is funded at $72.66 million for NETL research and development and at $58.68 million for NETL infrastructure and operations for the Fiscal Year 2018…

It just makes sense that the IRS would want to help people comply before they need to file.

The Internal Revenue Service has, in fact, become less of a service.

Plain and simple, our Government needs revenue to work.

If you are surprised to be hearing from us, you aren't hearing from us.

I would argue that the economic security of our Nation is critical as well.

I appreciate the Trump administration's commitment to the security of our Nation. However, there are many facets that comprise the security of a nation.

When I was Governor of the State of West Virginia and we had budget constraints and we would have to adjust our budgets a little bit, I never would cut back on my auditing staff. I would always increase their budget because for every…

But if I am renting it through Airbnb who you are going to be targeting because you know who they are.

Finding some of these people, let us say that some of them just do not know, just do not understand.

We must also find a way to classify this type of work that both adjusted to growing portions of Americans engaging in this work.

What about the 10 percent that are not even receiving their notices by mail?

My recommendation...is to learn from the best practices as used in industry.

Ten percent of our IRS notices do not reach their intended audience.

It is imperative that taxpayers be able to comply with their tax obligation.

I was just concerned about CFIUS taking the approach maybe of not national security, but having a Chinese conglomerate having all this information into our financial economic wherewithal.

It is going to be almost a salvation to most of the States, especially rural States that do not have the expertise...

I am thinking some type of a commission.