i congratulate mr. latta and mr. green for their very good work making a good bill better. i want to thank working close partnership with mr. waxman and ms. eshoo. we have no more speakers. i urge a yes vote on this bill and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from oregon is recognized. mr. walden: i thank the gentleman from vermont for his kind works and work on -- kind words and work on this legislation. i mr. waxman and ms. eshoo have worked tirelessly on this bill. their staff, shawn, david, who worked hard on this. and my senior policy advisor, all of whom spent time working this through. it's interesting we get to this point and it kind of goes naturally. a lot of work went in to getting to this point. i thank our staffs and our members who really worked with us in a very good-spirited way. with that, mr. chairman, i'd -- mr. speaker, i'd urge the house approve this bill, without objection, and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the question is will

. >> i recognize gentleman from mississippi, mr. latta for three minutes. >> this is certainly an area that can be used to inflame the moaces of the american people. there are out there who feel they are harassed by the i.r.s. i think there are some key issues and points that we must stress and keep in mind. there is no evidence of any such misuse in the final analysis on a part of the president. the joint committee on internal revenue taxation report should be noted in this conclusion. i will cite some sections from that report in a minute. also almost all of the examples of alleged attempts to misuse i.r.s. come from the person that used the most influence supposedly within the i.r.s. john dean is a person that made these points with john walters and others. lot has been made of this missing 17 minutes of tape. the fact is, we don't have that 17 minutes. there's been some contradictions what's included. i don't think we can base this decision on something we don't yet have. maybe we will later on. it's been claimed that several individu