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May 17, 2013
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On May 10, 2013, Lois Lerner, Director of Exempt Organizations for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) division that oversees tax-exempt groups, finally acknowledged that the agency had been targeting conservative-leaning political organizations. Four days later, the Treasury Inspector General for T...
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May 16, 2013
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Good afternoon. I want to welcome everyone to our hearing on the U.S.-EU trade and investment partnership negotiations. Today’s hearing focuses on the enormous potential that exists in a U.S.-EU trade and investment agreement. The U.S.-EU economic relationship is the largest and most integrated in t...
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May 15, 2013
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The hearing will come to order. Good morning and thank you for joining us for our hearing on the Ways & Means Small Business Tax Reform Discussion Draft. In March 2011, the Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee held a hearing on small businesses and tax reform. We learned that the temporary, complex...
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May 9, 2013
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Entering foster care is a life-changing experience for children. Foster children are faced with a dizzying array of changes that are anything but normal. They are separated from their parents. They are often sent to live with a family they have never met. They may start attending a new school, have ...
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May 8, 2013
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Welcome to today’s hearing on the IRS’s final report on its Colleges and Universities Compliance Project. Over the last two decades, tax-exempt organizations have grown increasingly complex in their organizational structures and operations. This has made it more difficult for the IRS to conduct over...
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May 7, 2013
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I want to welcome everyone to today’s hearing on addressing the broken Sustainable Growth Rate formula by which the federal government reimburses our local doctors for treating Medicare patients. While this is our third hearing, SGR has also been a focal point at the first two. The first hearing was...
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April 26, 2013
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Good morning and welcome. Every six years a new Commissioner is nominated and confirmed to lead the Social Security Administration. Congress deliberately created a term that might straddle political changes in the executive branch to underscore the importance of strong and independent leadership fo...
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April 25, 2013
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Good morning and thank you for joining us today as we continue our dialogue with individuals, families and job creators of all sizes about the critical steps Congress can take through tax reform to get our economy back on solid footing. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, it is important f...
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April 25, 2013
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Welcome to the Subcommittee on Oversight’s annual hearing on the Internal Revenue Service’s operations and budget. Just last week, million of taxpayers across America scrambled to meet their tax filing obligations by April 15. That was no easy feat. Every year, taxpayers face a tax code of growing c...
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April 24, 2013
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Good morning. We are meeting today to consider H.R. 807, the “Full Faith and Credit Act,” introduced by Congressman McClintock earlier this year. I will be offering an amendment in the nature of a substitute to ensure that the United States never defaults on a debt payment. In February of this year...
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