[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5038]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               WE OWE TAXPAYERS A GREAT DEBT OF GRATITUDE

  (Mr. YODER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. YODER. Mr. Speaker, today millions of Americans will take their 
hard-earned income through toil and labor and send a significant 
portion of that sweat equity to Washington, D.C., for this Congress to 
spend, sending trillions to continue to feed a bloated and inefficient 
government. According to the IRS, Americans have spent 6.1 billion 
hours and $168 billion just simply having their tax returns prepared. 
These taxpayers bear a heavy burden for our actions here.
  Last year our Federal Government took in more money from the American 
people than ever before. Washington doesn't have a revenue problem; it 
has a spending problem, which is easy for Congress because they are 
spending other people's money.
  Americans expect, when they send their tax dollars to Washington, 
D.C., that we will be good stewards of that money, that we will treat 
it with the respect for the American people that worked hard to earn it 
and send it here.
  So today, as Americans head to the post office to drop their returns 
before the deadline, we owe them a great debt of gratitude; and in 
that, I ask that Congress renew its efforts to reduce spending, reform 
programs, balance our budget, and reduce the heavy weight of the tax 
burden on these hard-working American people.

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