Chief berry, thank you for that introduction, because it was brief, and thats what i like. At this point one way or another people know who i am. And let me also thank our outstanding mayor of the city of chicago, rahm emanuel for hosting us. I know that thousands of you from federal, state, county, local and tribal agencies have been working hard to share strategies and solutions to better serve and protect all of us. And we are profoundly grateful for you work. I do hope that youve gotten a little time to enjoy my hometown as well. Because there is fun to be had here. Somebody clapped. Even as we meet here today, though, another gathering of police is taking place in new york. Randolph holder was born in guyana to a family of Police Officers. His dad was a Police Officer, his grandfather was a Police Officer, and after his family came to america, randolph followed in their footsteps and joined new yorks finest. A week ago today a shots fired call came over the radio. And as officer h
And as you know want that is something that 501 c 3 s already possess. All of the measures that i just mentioned are included in the taxpayer bill of rights. And i hope that we can count on your cooperation on these measures and others that the committee might consider to restore the credibility and integrity of your agency. I say all that, ask those questions. But to the degree you can comment on those, commissioner and then if you can cant, well certainly welcome that for the record. Well, id be delighted to give you a more detailed answer for the record. When you note the changes on our own, those are the changes in response to the bipartisan report as well as recommendations in the majority and minority report. These are not ideas that we have by ourselves. Weve said well take all of the recommendations that we have control over. The ones necessary to make sure that the delays dont happen again. Were going everything you asked us to do. With regard to the bill of rights, as you not
Are protected. I hope this e which can count on the support of you and other high officials at the treasury. And with that what i would like to do is get you views on a few of what i think are the common sense proposals that senator grassley and i have in our legislation to make the irs accountable to the american taxpayers. Im going to read through these and ask you to hold off on commenting. But i want to get the questions in. The first one is that last year the irs proposed its own taxpayer bill of rights. If question is would you support legislation to codify the rights and make it the duty of the commissioner to ensure that irs employees are familiar with the rights. Second is the ten deadly sins created by the irs Restructuring Commission in 198 9 8 requires mandatory termination of an employee who threatens to audit a taxpayer for monetary gain. Would you support this . Number three, in your recent letter to the committee you state that the irs failure to preserve electronic rec