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Hearing Business meeting to consider the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be Attorney General.
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript · 11 transcript matches
BOOKER, CORY A. "We got nothing, no guarantees whatsoever that this slush fund still can't go forward. We got nothing that the president of the United States can't cheat on his taxes and have no accountability. Dear God, folks, it's not like we're talking about a president who is a saint. No president in the history of this country has been caught in tax cheating more than this one. A Pulitzer Prize winning document documentation of his tax cheating came out in 2018. That suit was thrown out because the president is a tax cheat. He was a tax cheat with his nonprofit as well. It was cited by the state of New..."
Hearing Hearings to examine data and profit, focusing on the consumer cost of AI surveillance pricing.
senate Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism Subcommittee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript · 11 transcript matches
BOOKER, CORY A. "We got nothing, no guarantees whatsoever that this slush fund still can't go forward. We got nothing that the president of the United States can't cheat on his taxes and have no accountability. Dear God, folks, it's not like we're talking about a president who is a saint. No president in the history of this country has been caught in tax cheating more than this one. A Pulitzer Prize winning document documentation of his tax cheating came out in 2018. That suit was thrown out because the president is a tax cheat. He was a tax cheat with his nonprofit as well. It was cited by the state of New..."
Hearing Hearings to examine prescribing sunshine, focusing on how competition and transparency lowers prescription drug costs.
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript · 11 transcript matches
BOOKER, CORY A. "We got nothing, no guarantees whatsoever that this slush fund still can't go forward. We got nothing that the president of the United States can't cheat on his taxes and have no accountability. Dear God, folks, it's not like we're talking about a president who is a saint. No president in the history of this country has been caught in tax cheating more than this one. A Pulitzer Prize winning document documentation of his tax cheating came out in 2018. That suit was thrown out because the president is a tax cheat. He was a tax cheat with his nonprofit as well. It was cited by the state of New..."
CRS Report
Child and Dependent Care Tax Benefits: How They Work and Who Receives Them
Reports · Feb 1, 2021
Two tax provisions subsidize the child and dependent care expenses of working parents: the child and dependent care tax credit (CDCTC) and the exclusion for employer-sponsored child and dependent...
Hearing H.R. 9496, H.R. 9500, H.R. 9498, H.R. 9501, H.R. 9499, H.R. 7972, H.R. 9504
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 1, 2026 · Transcript · 5 transcript matches
DOGGETT, LLOYD "It's called the Research, Applied Analytics, and Statistics Division, RAAS. And it was staffed with exactly the very kind of economists and administrators and statisticians, data scientists, that this bill claims to desire. They will build the models that flag high-end tax cheating. That capability is what led the Internal Revenue Service in 2023 to use artificial intelligence to identify 75 of the country's largest partnerships, hedge funds, real estate empires, the nation's biggest law firms, each averaging more than $10 billion in assets, and open them to audit. And what happened to them?..."
Testimony WYDEN, RON
Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, "Taxpayer Assi...
senate Finance Committee · Jul 30, 2026
"Never has it been more clear with this example of the fact that there are rules for people at the top and there are rules for everybody else. The ultra wealthy can game the system with armies of accountants and lawyers and everybody else has to play by the rules and pay their share. I take it as an admission of guilt when it comes to tax cheating that the Trump family has been stuffing every dollar they can and put it in their pockets, but they won't face accountability as Donald Trump can..."
Testimony SPEAKER_16
Foreign Influence in American Non-profits: Unmasking Threats from Beij...
house Ways and Means Committee · Feb 10, 2026
"So if we care about that, then the administration needs to restore that staffing. The other question you are saying is perhaps even more important, which is the reason that extra funding was supplied, as you know, was to do two things, to make the service more responsible to regular consumers, but also to empower them to investigate complex returns of high-dollar and corporate tax cheats. That investment pays back about five or more times over. They've lost that money, lost that capacity. That..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, "Taxpayer Assistance and Service Act".
senate Finance Committee · Jul 30, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
WYDEN, RON "Never has it been more clear with this example of the fact that there are rules for people at the top and there are rules for everybody else. The ultra wealthy can game the system with armies of accountants and lawyers and everybody else has to play by the rules and pay their share. I take it as an admission of guilt when it comes to tax cheating that the Trump family has been stuffing every dollar they can and put it in their pockets, but they won't face accountability as Donald Trump can bleed the IRS dry of staffing and resources needed to go after tax cheats. Later this morning, the..."
Hearing Foreign Influence in American Non-profits: Unmasking Threats from Beijing and Beyond
house Ways and Means Committee · Feb 10, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
SPEAKER_16 "So if we care about that, then the administration needs to restore that staffing. The other question you are saying is perhaps even more important, which is the reason that extra funding was supplied, as you know, was to do two things, to make the service more responsible to regular consumers, but also to empower them to investigate complex returns of high-dollar and corporate tax cheats. That investment pays back about five or more times over. They've lost that money, lost that capacity. That means we're going to see more tax fraud, more tax cheating, more tax avoidance by the by at least..."
Hearing Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2027 for the Department of the Interior.
senate Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · Apr 22, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
REED, JACK "You come from the business world, and no successful company would underinvest in its revenue collection mechanism. The IRS itself acknowledges that every dollar the agency invests in enforcement brings $11 back from tax cheats. So your own agency admits that cutting IRS staff and funding, particularly its enforcement budget, costs American taxpayers and helps tax"
Hearing Full Committee Hearing with Internal Revenue Service Chief Executive Officer, Frank J. Bisignano
house Ways and Means Committee · Mar 4, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
CHU, JUDY "So your agency is under attack by the president tasked with overseeing it. The result is exactly what you'd expect, worse service for everyday taxpayers and more opportunities for wealthy tax cheats to game the system. That is not"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be Attorney General.
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SCHIFF, ADAM B. "No, before the agreement. A tax return filed in this calendar year before this agreement. Okay. So for a tax return filed this year for last year, for the billions he made, there is no tax liability even if he cheats on his taxes or his kids do or his business do. He is absolved of that further potential"
Testimony GRASSLEY, CHUCK
Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, "Taxpayer Assi...
senate Finance Committee · Jul 30, 2026
"The bill includes improvements to the IRS whistleblower program that I authored along with Ranking Member Wyden. These provisions will ensure that those that risk their career to blow the whistle on corporate tax cheats can be confident that their identity will be protected and will receive fair award in a timely manner. And why do their identities need to be"
Testimony BOOKER, CORY A.
Business meeting to consider the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florid...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"We got nothing, no guarantees whatsoever that this slush fund still can't go forward. We got nothing that the president of the United States can't cheat on his taxes and have no accountability. Dear God, folks, it's not like we're talking about a president who is a saint. No president in the history of this country has been caught in tax cheating more than this one. A Pulitzer Prize winning document documentation of his tax cheating came out in 2018. That suit was thrown out because the..."
Testimony BOOKER, CORY A.
Business meeting to consider the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florid...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"This is so ridiculous that we are sitting back here and allowing this to happen. A president that we know is a tax cheat. That is a fact. That is a fact. We have now just given him an immunity to his tax cheating. We have now just given him an immunity to his tax"
Testimony BOOKER, CORY A.
Business meeting to consider the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florid...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"And now we're letting an attorney general become the highest law enforcement officer in the land and putting no holds whatsoever. I had hoped for two weeks that we would get something, two weeks that we would have something substantive to stop the world's greatest presidential tax cheat from cheating. And we've done"
Testimony BOOKER, CORY A.
Business meeting to consider the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florid...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"that by Bureau of Prison Law, by DOJ law, is a violation of their principles. So, Glaine Maxwell is sitting in the lowest possible confinement after giving no information that helped us get one more investigation started and has been silent. And the man responsible for that, we are about to make the Attorney General of the United States of America. This man is not our lawyer. He is not America's lawyer. He is about to become Trump's sword against his adversaries and shield against any scrutiny...."
Testimony BOOKER, CORY A.
Hearings to examine data and profit, focusing on the consumer cost of ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"We got nothing, no guarantees whatsoever that this slush fund still can't go forward. We got nothing that the president of the United States can't cheat on his taxes and have no accountability. Dear God, folks, it's not like we're talking about a president who is a saint. No president in the history of this country has been caught in tax cheating more than this one. A Pulitzer Prize winning document documentation of his tax cheating came out in 2018. That suit was thrown out because the..."
Testimony BOOKER, CORY A.
Hearings to examine data and profit, focusing on the consumer cost of ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"This is so ridiculous that we are sitting back here and allowing this to happen. A president that we know is a tax cheat. That is a fact. That is a fact. We have now just given him an immunity to his tax cheating. We have now just given him an immunity to his tax"
Testimony BOOKER, CORY A.
Hearings to examine data and profit, focusing on the consumer cost of ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"And now we're letting an attorney general become the highest law enforcement officer in the land and putting no holds whatsoever. I had hoped for two weeks that we would get something, two weeks that we would have something substantive to stop the world's greatest presidential tax cheat from cheating. And we've done"
Testimony BOOKER, CORY A.
Hearings to examine data and profit, focusing on the consumer cost of ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"that by Bureau of Prison Law, by DOJ law, is a violation of their principles. So, Glaine Maxwell is sitting in the lowest possible confinement after giving no information that helped us get one more investigation started and has been silent. And the man responsible for that, we are about to make the Attorney General of the United States of America. This man is not our lawyer. He is not America's lawyer. He is about to become Trump's sword against his adversaries and shield against any scrutiny...."
Testimony BOOKER, CORY A.
Hearings to examine prescribing sunshine, focusing on how competition ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"We got nothing, no guarantees whatsoever that this slush fund still can't go forward. We got nothing that the president of the United States can't cheat on his taxes and have no accountability. Dear God, folks, it's not like we're talking about a president who is a saint. No president in the history of this country has been caught in tax cheating more than this one. A Pulitzer Prize winning document documentation of his tax cheating came out in 2018. That suit was thrown out because the..."
Testimony BOOKER, CORY A.
Hearings to examine prescribing sunshine, focusing on how competition ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"This is so ridiculous that we are sitting back here and allowing this to happen. A president that we know is a tax cheat. That is a fact. That is a fact. We have now just given him an immunity to his tax cheating. We have now just given him an immunity to his tax"
Testimony BOOKER, CORY A.
Hearings to examine prescribing sunshine, focusing on how competition ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"And now we're letting an attorney general become the highest law enforcement officer in the land and putting no holds whatsoever. I had hoped for two weeks that we would get something, two weeks that we would have something substantive to stop the world's greatest presidential tax cheat from cheating. And we've done"
Testimony BOOKER, CORY A.
Hearings to examine prescribing sunshine, focusing on how competition ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"that by Bureau of Prison Law, by DOJ law, is a violation of their principles. So, Glaine Maxwell is sitting in the lowest possible confinement after giving no information that helped us get one more investigation started and has been silent. And the man responsible for that, we are about to make the Attorney General of the United States of America. This man is not our lawyer. He is not America's lawyer. He is about to become Trump's sword against his adversaries and shield against any scrutiny...."
Testimony DOGGETT, LLOYD
H.R. 9496, H.R. 9500, H.R. 9498, H.R. 9501, H.R. 9499, H.R. 7972, H.R....
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 1, 2026
"It's called the Research, Applied Analytics, and Statistics Division, RAAS. And it was staffed with exactly the very kind of economists and administrators and statisticians, data scientists, that this bill claims to desire. They will build the models that flag high-end tax cheating. That capability is what led the Internal Revenue Service in 2023 to use artificial intelligence to identify 75 of the country's largest partnerships, hedge funds, real estate empires, the nation's biggest law firms,..."
Testimony DOGGETT, LLOYD
H.R. 9496, H.R. 9500, H.R. 9498, H.R. 9501, H.R. 9499, H.R. 7972, H.R....
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 1, 2026
"And the GAO reported something that ought to stop the committee cold. The model that IRS had built to flag tax returns for audit may now be shelved because there may not be any staff that knows how to use it. They have a machine that can find the tax cheating. They fired the people that will operate the"
Testimony DOGGETT, LLOYD
H.R. 9496, H.R. 9500, H.R. 9498, H.R. 9501, H.R. 9499, H.R. 7972, H.R....
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 1, 2026
"That's the kind of stability the Trump regime has offered. Senior employees reassigned to answer the telephone, while high-end tax cheats ran rampant, and they continue to do so. That's not modernization. It's"
Testimony CHU, JUDY
H.R. 9496, H.R. 9500, H.R. 9498, H.R. 9501, H.R. 9499, H.R. 7972, H.R....
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 1, 2026
"As its resources dwindled, its workload grew. The result was exactly what you would expect. Wealthy tax cheats slipped through the cracks. Audits"
Testimony CHU, JUDY
H.R. 9496, H.R. 9500, H.R. 9498, H.R. 9501, H.R. 9499, H.R. 7972, H.R....
house Ways and Means Committee · Jul 1, 2026
"Customer service improved. The agency was able to devote more resources to pursuing wealthy tax cheats, and experts projected those investments will return over half a trillion dollars in revenue for taxpayers. Unfortunately, this was cut short by Republicans who made it their mission to claw back this funding at every single"
Testimony DELAURO, ROSA L.
Fiscal Year 2027 Defense Bill
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"Do my Republican colleagues really believe the same standard ought not to apply to reconciliation funding? Should tax cheats and corporate criminals be eligible for lucrative government contracts simply because the money was passed through a different process? We include language in this defense bill to prohibit the use of funding for"
Testimony JASON SOMENSATTO
Full Committee Legislative Hearing on Digital Asset Taxation
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"And right now you have many people making very small transactions involving cryptocurrency. And the over-criminalization of that activity, if you don't pay it right, creates an environment in which everybody is a tax cheat. That's exactly right. And so taking from the concept of like a foreign currency transaction, it wasn't that we wanted to say, hey, we're incentivizing people to go buy euros and then buy a croissant when they go to France on their"
Testimony REED, JACK
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · Apr 22, 2026
"You come from the business world, and no successful company would underinvest in its revenue collection mechanism. The IRS itself acknowledges that every dollar the agency invests in enforcement brings $11 back from tax cheats. So your own agency admits that cutting IRS staff and funding, particularly its enforcement budget, costs American taxpayers and helps tax"
Testimony CHU, JUDY
Full Committee Hearing with Internal Revenue Service Chief Executive O...
house Ways and Means Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"So your agency is under attack by the president tasked with overseeing it. The result is exactly what you'd expect, worse service for everyday taxpayers and more opportunities for wealthy tax cheats to game the system. That is not"
Testimony GARCIA, ROBERT
“Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part I”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jan 7, 2026
"Trump for this enormous amount of fraud. Now let's look at Paul Walzak, a tax cheat whose crimes cost taxpayers almost $1.1 billion, dwarfing what we're talking about today, as he made lavish purchases like a $1 million luxury"
Hearing Fiscal Year 2027 Defense Bill
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript
DELAURO, ROSA L. "Do my Republican colleagues really believe the same standard ought not to apply to reconciliation funding? Should tax cheats and corporate criminals be eligible for lucrative government contracts simply because the money was passed through a different process? We include language in this defense bill to prohibit the use of funding for"
Hearing Full Committee Legislative Hearing on Digital Asset Taxation
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 9, 2026 · Transcript
JASON SOMENSATTO "And right now you have many people making very small transactions involving cryptocurrency. And the over-criminalization of that activity, if you don't pay it right, creates an environment in which everybody is a tax cheat. That's exactly right. And so taking from the concept of like a foreign currency transaction, it wasn't that we wanted to say, hey, we're incentivizing people to go buy euros and then buy a croissant when they go to France on their"
Hearing “Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part I”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jan 7, 2026 · Transcript
GARCIA, ROBERT "Trump for this enormous amount of fraud. Now let's look at Paul Walzak, a tax cheat whose crimes cost taxpayers almost $1.1 billion, dwarfing what we're talking about today, as he made lavish purchases like a $1 million luxury"
Testimony SCHIFF, ADAM B.
Hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"No, before the agreement. A tax return filed in this calendar year before this agreement. Okay. So for a tax return filed this year for last year, for the billions he made, there is no tax liability even if he cheats on his taxes or his kids do or his business do. He is absolved of that further potential"
Testimony CHU, JUDY
Foreign Influence in American Non-profits: Unmasking Threats from Beij...
house Ways and Means Committee · Feb 10, 2026
"But is that true? And how do these cuts affect IRS's ability to look at millionaires and billionaires who can cheat our tax system while everyday Americans wait hours to spend to just speak to a live human being? So how does this increase foreign"
Testimony HUSTED, JON
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · Apr 22, 2026
"but we're just one of those Midwestern states Nobody wants somebody to cheat on taxes. Everybody wants to have a better experience with the"
Testimony EVANS, DWIGHT
Full Committee Hearing with Internal Revenue Service Chief Executive O...
house Ways and Means Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"Mr. Chairman, for calling this hearing today to highlight the President's failure to protect the American taxpayer, the President and his billion-dollar buddies have continued to make it harder for working families to get tax credits and refunds. Instead, the President has been making it easier for billionaires to cheat our tax code and to make themselves richer. This administration is for the rich and against American workers and"
Testimony SCHIFF, ADAM B.
Hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"So you know, Mr. Blanchett. The participant there was not the president. Well, if the president is conspiring with others to falsify business records to help them cheat on taxes, he is also exposed to liability. You know that as well as I do. Of course he can"
Testimony WARREN, ELIZABETH
Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, "Taxpayer Assi...
senate Finance Committee · Jul 30, 2026
"And my amendment would reverse that, that shameful decision, and make Direct File law of the land. We also cannot stand by when the Trump administration just cut a deal giving Donald Trump a get-out-of-jail-free card for potentially cheating on his taxes. No other taxpayer ever has gotten this kind of a deal, and a federal judge has already called it"
Testimony BOOKER, CORY A.
Business meeting to consider the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florid...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"A slush fund had been created for the president to dole out to people who've done the most officers in this building would not get taxpayer dollars as some kind of reward. Universal disagreement on that and the fact that a president of the United States is not above the law and shouldn't be able to cheat on their taxes. And so I sat back for days now looking forward to us at least of all the things that"
Testimony BOOKER, CORY A.
Hearings to examine data and profit, focusing on the consumer cost of ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"A slush fund had been created for the president to dole out to people who've done the most officers in this building would not get taxpayer dollars as some kind of reward. Universal disagreement on that and the fact that a president of the United States is not above the law and shouldn't be able to cheat on their taxes. And so I sat back for days now looking forward to us at least of all the things that"
Testimony BOOKER, CORY A.
Hearings to examine prescribing sunshine, focusing on how competition ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"A slush fund had been created for the president to dole out to people who've done the most officers in this building would not get taxpayer dollars as some kind of reward. Universal disagreement on that and the fact that a president of the United States is not above the law and shouldn't be able to cheat on their taxes. And so I sat back for days now looking forward to us at least of all the things that"
CRS Report
Internet Gambling: Policy Issues for Congress
Reports · Nov 7, 2016
Gambling, once widely outlawed, is now a regulated, taxed activity that is legal in some form—bingo, card games, slot machines, state-run lotteries, casinos, and even online—in all states except...
CRS Report
Imports and the Section 321 (De Minimis) Exemption: Origins, Evolution, and Use
Reports · Jan 31, 2025
In 1938, Congress enacted Section 321(a)(2)(C) of the Tariff Act of 1930, (codified as amended at 19 U.S.C. §1321(a)(2)(C)) to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to waive or reduce certain...
CRS Report
Puerto Rico’s Public Debts: Accumulation and Restructuring
Reports · May 2, 2022
Puerto Rico’s public debts totaled just over $70 billion when the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (P.L. 114-187; PROMESA) became law on June 30, 2016. Most of those...
CRS Report
Social Security Benefits for Noncitizens
Reports · Nov 17, 2016
Concerns about the number of unauthorized (illegal) aliens residing in the United States have fostered considerable interest in the eligibility of noncitizens for U.S. Social Security benefits. The...
CRS Report
Deprivation of Honest Services as a Basis for Federal Mail and Wire Fraud Convictions
Reports · Sep 16, 2011
The United States Supreme Court in Skilling v. United States construed the honest services branch of the federal mail and wire fraud statutes to reach no more than cases involving bribery or...
CRS Report
Mail and Wire Fraud: A Brief Overview of Federal Criminal Law
Reports · Feb 11, 2019
The mail and wire fraud statutes are exceptionally broad. Their scope has occasionally given the courts pause. Nevertheless, prosecutions in their name have brought to an end schemes that have bilked...
CRS Report
Obstruction of Congress: A Brief Overview of Federal Law Relating to Interference with Congressional Activities
Reports · Nov 5, 2010
Obstruction of justice is the impediment of governmental activities. There are a host of federal criminal laws that prohibit obstructions of justice. The six most general outlaw obstruction of...
CRS Report
Trade Remedies: Countervailing Duties
Reports · Aug 23, 2021
The U.S. Constitution grants to Congress the power to regulate trade with foreign nations and levy tariffs. Since 1922, U.S. law and foreign policy have favored applying tariffs and duties equally to...
CRS Report
The Crime Victims Fund (CVF): Federal Support for Victims of Crime
Reports · May 21, 2024
In 1984, the Crime Victims Fund (CVF, or the Fund) was established by the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA, P.L. 98-473) to provide funding for state victim compensation and assistance programs. Since...
CRS Report
Obstruction of Justice: An Overview of Some of the Federal Statutes That Prohibit Interference with Judicial, Executive, or Legislative Activities
Reports · Apr 17, 2014
Obstruction of justice is the impediment of governmental activities. There are a host of federal criminal laws that prohibit obstructions of justice. The six most general outlaw obstruction of...