“Mr. Chairman, the first bill we are marking up today - H.R. 5613 - would help make sure that Americans living in rural America have access to the health care services they need, right in their own communities. The bill would provide additional time for critical access hospitals and other small, rural hospitals to comply with a CMS rule requiring these hospitals’ outpatient departments to have direct supervision of physicians or other approved providers.
“The second bill we are marking up - H.R. 5523 - would ensure the IRS can only conduct civil asset forfeiture proceedings for bank deposit structuring if the property came from an illegal source or structuring was done to hide criminal activity. This is, in fact, current policy at the IRS, and this bill would codify that policy. This is a bipartisan bill led by Mr. Crowley and Mr. Roskam, and I thank you for your leadership and work on this important effort in the Oversight Subcommittee."
