Part of the program, that will give us a chance to hear from everyone and have maybe more than one round of questions. I am going to recognize the members in order of seniority. Those that were here and the latecomers, we will recognize them based on their arrival. E will go back and forth between the parties. I think most of you know that the 2014 appropriation cycle tested our endurance. It was only after the fiscal year started and after we had a Government Shutdown that the Budget Committee came to an agreement on the Discretionary Spending. Once we have that agreement enacted, we will do our sleeves and we went to work quickly and got a bipartisan on this appropriation bill. It is and thanks in no small part to our distinguished chairman, mr. Rogers, who is with us today. We hope this year will go more smoothly. We have got an agreement on the total Discretionary Spending that is in place. By that, i mean the way we are supposed to work and we will mark up our bills and subject th
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When the irs is contacting them and saying, you owe us taxes. And that drives the taxpayer to be engaged in a long extended conversation with the irs. By that point the preparer is long gone, you cant find that preparer. I appreciate your clarifying that because i didnt think the standards were adequate even before we saw taxpayers bumping up against the kind of problems that youre talking about and i appreciate your demonstrating and that is usually the case that the unscrupulous are always one or two steps ahead of efforts, particularly voluntary efforts, to deal with the problem. Now i gather so were clear on this point the loving decision in your view has created new problems in effect in terms of protecting taxpayers, is that right . Well, absolutely. The loving decision, first of all, my reading of it did not could to the fact whether regulation is desirable or not. It addressed whether the irs has the authority to regulate the taxpayer under current law. There is injunction agai
For the second time in eight years the Government Accountability office have done an independent inquiry and has proven that the absence of meaningful oversight of much of the tax preparer industry is harming to many citizens who can least afford it. End it could also be much worse. In some cases, taxpayers refunds were prepared in person and skip the one who shows who did the work. And the worst of all plus the taxpayer can prove what happened, they are on the hook for the money when the irs finds out. Witnesses said they can share some more eyeopening stories and we are eager to get their thoughts on what the government can do to come up with more sensible policies here in the most important step is to restore standards to protect the american taxpayer. I am proud to say that my home state of oregon gets this issue right. Taxpayers keep up with the changing landscape of the tax code in order to maintain their licenses. Oregon standards work. Take a look at the system a few years ago
Vice chairman has said quite correctly, well, this doesnt we need to come up until next year, but thats a long time to wait. My concern is that we do need to do something there. I dont think its necessary to put the fisa bill first. Our bill is ready to go. It could pass the senate. I think at the very least they would show that we can pass something. We can get it conferenced. We can get it back before the senate for a final vote and we can get to the president. So we can do this with not a great deal of debate, probably with a joint rule between the two sides that there be a couple of hours for debate and a limited number of amendments, and then get it passed and then conferenced it. So we could get something done. And i very much hope that that will happen. We hope so, too. We have time for one more question if theres anyone else out there. Theres one here in the middle. My name is jason from senator mark kirks office. I wanted to ask senator chambliss, who will hold the banner for