mr. roskam: mr. speaker, i move to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 2530, as amended. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 2530, a bill to improve transparency and efficiency with respect to audits and communications between taxpayers and the internal revenue service. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from illinois, mr. roskam, and the gentleman from illinois, mr. davis, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. roskam. mr. roskam: thank you, mr. speaker. i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and to include extraneous material on the subject of the bill under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. roskam: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. mr. speaker, h.r. 2530, the taxpayer transparency and efficient audit act, is a direct response to testimony and inquiries and news repo

mr. roskam. mr. roskam: thank you, mr. speaker. there's one thing worse than gridlock, according to my predecessor, congressman henry hyde. the worse thing than gridlock is the greased chute of government. and it's ironic that the very administration that jammed through the affordable care act, known in the vernacular as obamacare, the very group that foisted that on the american public in the middle of the night without much oversight, without much discussion, jammed it through, now has a new remedy as it relates to this latest problem, and that is, do it again. do it again on another issue. you know, we heard our friend from new jersey posing a question and he's misinformed by his -- by the nature of his question, somehow that the american public is paying for this. yet we had testimony that mr. camp, the chairman of the ways and means committee, asked this question of the chief of staff for the joint committee on taxation, this is dave camp, chairman of the committee, do these proposed regulations respond to some kind of revenue

mr. roskam, for five minutes. mr. roskam: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, in december of last year, the american studies association did a shameful thing. they decided to call on an academic boycott of one nation, and that is the state of israel. now, think about that. they looked over every other country in the world and they said basically by admission, oh, you're fine and you're fine and you're fine and you're fine. doesn't matter what's happening there or what's happening there, but we're being to go after one country, israel, and we're going to call upon a boycott. the former israeli ambassador, michael orrin, after that happened asked this question, will congress stand up for academic freedom? and the answer is yes. i was pleased, mr. speaker, to join with 134 colleagues, myself included, to send a letter to the american studies association to admonish them on what is clearly an anti-semitic effort on their part. i know that's a very harsh thing for me to say, but there's no other way to say it. it is anti-smetic. intend to move forward -- an