voted.e who have not >> mr. gomer has not been recorded. mr. gomer votes yes. mr. cook votes no. mr. casta votes no. >> mr. denham. >> mr. denham votes no. >> it is hard to hear that, i know. mr. young votes no. is there anybody else who has not voted or wishes to change? report -- vocal report. mr. chairman, the ayes are fiv 33.d the nay's are >> it is not adopted. i think we have six more minutes still to go. let's go as quickly as we possibly can, six or seven. mr. macarthur, number 55. you have already had that passed out and you are recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. this amendment dresses i think an error in the bill that came from an overabundance of caution. the bill, as it stands, authorizes an oversight board with the same extraordinary powers for each of the nation's territories, except none of the others face the kind of crisis facing cour puerto rico. no territory, other than puerto rico, have asked us to get involved. the u.s. virgin islands have expressly asked not to get involved with this. i worked with representative plaskett. on this amendment. my concern

. >> further discussion, mr. gomer. >> thank you, mr. chair. >> i greatly respect my friend from puerto rico. i appreciate his sincerity and effort on his behalf of his constituents. the point continues to be made that puerto rico is not a state. puerto rico and i've missed it, is not voted to ask to become a state. but that's also the reason that puerto rico, guam, virgin islands, actually every american entity, except for the district of columbia that does not elect a full voting member of congress does not pay federal income tax that's why i filed the bill of district of columbia paid federal income tax. but one of the things i've not really heard anybody address, we've talked about in europe the need for the minimum wage to be raised and when we for an individual who accepts, they may be looking at $1,700 a month to take home where as under the current minimum wage, it's about $1,200 take home, well, the incentive there is obviously not to work, but i know my friends at heritage have encouraged as a solution lowering the minimum wage

. >> mr. gomer has not been recorded. mr. casa votes no. >> it's hard to hear that, i know. [laughter] >> mr. young votes no. is there anyone else who has not voted or wishes to change? the clerk will report. >> mr. chairman, the nays are 33. >> the amendment is not adopted. i think we have six amendments still to go. so let's go as quickly as we possibly can. six or seven. mr. macarthur, number 55. you already had that passed out. you're recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. this amendment addresses an error, i think, an error in the bill that came from an over abundance of caution, the bill as it stands authorizes oversight board with same extraordinary powers for each of the nation easter toirs except that none of the rest of them face looming crisis that now faces puerto rico. no territory other than puerto rico has asked us to get involved. the u.s. virgin islands have asked not to be part of this and i worked with representative plaskett on this amendment and my concern is that it could have the unintended consequence of eroding other territories access to capital ma

the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. gomer for five minutes. >> appreciate the witnesses being here today. the his is important. since the internal revenue service is the only entity in which i'm aware in the federal government that can ignore the constitution. as part of its job. nobody else gets to ignore the constitution. but they can take people's money without due process. they can take their property. they can move in and destroy a business that took a lifetime to build. and they have done that. so it is particularly important that the agents that work for such an agency, they can ignore the constitution must itself be completely overwhelmed with integrity. what we've seen is not the case. i know and have known irs agents who were as fine and honest of people as walked the earth. i have heard from irs agents who were -- have been furious privately to see the kind of corruption and dishonesty that has woverwhelmed the top of the internal revenue service. because he just filed an amended tax return because she had forgotte