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Great big mansion if we have the resources to build a hut. And i think that our system right now really needs a substantial injection of a longterm bill but also substantial growth to counteract the cumulative effect of the shortterm measures in the recent past. And one followup real quickly on that specific point. Is there a version of that proposal you are talking about that doesnt have the big tax increase on successful folks as part of it . Because going back to the spirit of my comments, im...

Our system, all of it was customized and developed in the 50s and 60s. Weve replaced that system with those expenditures. But we still have over 50 applications that need to be replaced. But to show what weve been able to do that, that refund app got 200 million hits last year. 150 million returns across just 85 are processed electronically. That was not only not possible, it was inconceivable 15 years ago. We have made substantial strides. But the 300 million on the Affordable Care act are all ...

Theres much that we can learn from this 13year experience in how to take a more comprehensive approach, and to recognize while kinetic actions have a value all of their own certainly and thats blatantly obvious, nonkinetic actions do as well. We can do much better at that than what we have done. Thank you. General matt is my time is up, but do you have any you want to add . Very quickly senator i would point out we have to improve the process assuming there is a process. Ive been unable to ident...

Thank you, mr. Chairman. Commissioner, welcome. I joined with other members of this Committee Last year on a letter to you after it was reported by the Inspector General for Tax Administration that more than 1100 employees had been awarded over a Million Dollars in cash rewards and more than 10,000 in timeoff awards. You made no commitments nor did you set any deadlines. And i know that youve talked a little bit about this already this morning. I just wanted, for the record to get you to speak c...

And that was hed asked you about mindless austerity, mindless sequestration cuts, ndless which was both in your written testimony and your spoken testimony. Do you really mindean mindless or was that a misspeak . What i mean by that is we sspea should look to make smart cuts hould in programs that arent working. It doesnt say smart. It says mindless. The implication of mindless is that it t applies a kind of across the board one size fits all approach to cutting spending as opposed to what i thi...

Government spending is something that does not guilty gel with real life. In other words all of these government expenditures in some of the graphs that we show today are because were not taking their money so therefore, that e kwatquates to Government Spending where in real life does not taking somebodys money equate to spending again, the credible credibility gap, i think increases when statements like that are made. By the way, if thats the case, i think that what . Our gdp is what . 17 trill...

Profession, the number one way to be satisfied personally and also to have a great future, whatever that future is, is just to do a fantastic job of whats in front of you. If you dont do that you can kiss any of that future goodbye. So im squus trying to do a great job with whats in front of me now. I think i might know the answer. The former hud secretary is now governor of his state. Any chance of you following a similar career path . Thanks for the question. Maybe we have some texans out ther...

Peoples opinion. They have their own experiences with this economy good or bad, and i suggest you stop digging once youre in a hole of that size. My question of you is how much business taxes are included in this budget. So what our budget does on taxes we propose a fully paid for set of middle class tax cuts that is paid for in the way that i discussed before. With business tax increases . Actually i want doesnt include any business tax increases. What are the taxes . I notice youre planning a ...

The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered today by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. God of the universe, thank you for giving us another day. It is your nature to hold us in your living presence always. It is our nature to think of you and of others only momentarily or in passing. Be with each of us that we may be our very best and prove ourselves worthy of your love and your grace. Bless the members of this peoples house in their work and delibe...

Department of Homeland Security into rain in a executive overreach. That is it. It is simple. There is no reason for democrats to block it. Politico reports that Senate Democrats intend to to block the homeland spending bill. One democrat who has spoken out against it is Senate Minority whip dick durbin. He called for a clean appropriation bill while speaking for the american advocates group, americas voice. You can watch tuesday at 2 30 eastern. As always, we will have coverage on cspan3. Next,...