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Into census bureau as you know is a nonpartisan statistical agency and we are independent of the political uses of census data, and, the partisan politics that has -- comes along with it and the enforcement side of the federal government. >> reporter: they say they don't care who you are, what you believe, what your lifestyle or your religion or politics are, they want to hear from you. martha: i saw a poster that said, if you don't tell us how many children you have we don't know how many classrooms we'll need, to build and all those sorts of things and what happens if you don't fill out the ...

These challenges can be worked out. the reality here is that the i.r. s., i think, is a good place to house. the i.r.s. is not going to be taking over health care. they're going to be handling the enforcement side of ensuring that people buy insurance and if not, handling the administration of the penalties. >> that still makes people very uncomfortable. >> it's comforting to know that the i.r.s. is going to be out there backing up health care. i'm sure a lot of people find that a comforting thing. >> the i.r.s. has trouble figuring out who is paying our taxes. this is going to be kind of an e...

Like half an hour if they get their questions answered. it's so appalling. i would be ashamed to run the irs if i was in charge of the irs. >> it's millions of phone calls. what we did today in this hearing is look, here is where the money is $60 billion in bonuses paid out. 500,000 hours in paid union activity supported by the american taxpayer. $2.1 million going to a whited shoe law firm with 1,000 bucks an hour paid by billed by partners. >> what law firm. >> i don't know off the top of my head. >> they have got a lot of lawyers. why can't the irs use the lawyers inside? >> $100 million fo...