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dr. mcdermott, do you want to inquire? you may inquire. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to shift the question just a liftal bit or the issues you've been dealing with here. i have a lot of lgbt clients or constituen constituents. they have been approaching me about the problems of dealing with the irs and how to file their income taxes and are having the experience of having more than one source give them a different answer. they're spending some of them twice as much as a married couple would spend to get their income tax done. they've gotten married under the law, but suddenly the irs has got thing -- when they ask questions about certain things, it's just not clear what the answer is. so i'm wondering, is there any single place or perhaps should there be a single place where they can call and find out the answer to a question or some place in the irs where somebody takes thissish yund begins to give definitive answers? >> yeah. great question. i'm aware of the issue. and we've actually tried to do a bunch. first of all, this is a very complex issue for these ta

dr. jim mcdermott. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from washington. mr. mcdermott: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. mcdermott: mr. speaker, members of the house, in five hours we are going to get on planes and go home. so we have to get the press releases ready to go. that's what this is about. this bill will be dead in the senate the minute it hits the desk. it's not going anywhere. it is a press release. and it is the most wasteful bill of the season so far. now, i'm sure that mr. cantor an others will find worse things to do down the way as we get closer to the election. this week has been a disaster in here. we started on tuesday by deeming the budget passed here and in the senate. it's a fiction. it never happened. that's how this week started. then we went to the ways and means committee yesterday and we cut $68 billion out of health, children services, social services, foster care, and reconciliation to balance the budget. and then we get up this morning and here we have a bill