answers from beth tucker. ms. tucker, quick question. you said had you been at the irs 29 years. she s not going to answer any questions. i m asking her a question. how can the american people still trust the irs with everything that is known, from the sweetheart deals we heard about to today, to the credit card abuse, targeting of conservatives, as an employee of 30 years, how can the american people still trust the irs. the american people should vus trust the irs because we re comprised of roughly 100,000 civil servants that do their best every day for this country. that said, there are some mistakes that have been made, and as you ve heard our acting commissioner say, irs is taking steps to get to the bottom of some of the problems we re seeing right now that i think it is critical for the american public to know that we take our mission very seriously.
0 building. thank you for being us with. all the time left this eek. as always, thanks for being with us. let not your heart be troubled. greta next to go on the record. we ll see balk here tomorrow morning. tonight, trayvon martin s friend says she heard this. kin of heard trayvon saying, get off, get off. then what did you hear? suddenly the phone hung up. shut off. a live report from the florida measure trial, but, first, absolutely staggering news. another irs official plead the fifth. the committee will come to order. our report, we believe shows a cozy relationship between strong castle s president and the irs deputy director for information technology acquisitions, gregg roseman, and it s the heart of this issue. mr. roseman, when did you first become aware of a company known as strong castle, inc. on the advice of council i respectfully decline to answer questions and invoke my fifth amendment right to remain silent. are you employed by the irs? mr. chairman
0 answers from beth tucker. ms. tucker, quick question. you said had you been at the irs 29 years. she s not going to answer any questions. i m asking her a question. how can the american people still trust the irs with everything that is known, from the sweetheart deals we heard about to today, to the credit card abuse, targeting of conservatives, as an employee of 30 years, how can the american people still trust the irs. the american people should vus trust the irs because we re comprised of roughly 100,000 civil servants that do their best every day for this country. that said, there are some mistakes that have been made, and as you ve heard our acting commissioner say, irs is taking steps to get to the bottom of some of the problems we re seeing right now that i think it is critical for the american public to know that we take our mission very seriously. thank you very much. one followup, mr. roseman, who plead the fifth, can you tell us will he keep his job? oversight
and they turn down people who don t qualify, and they said this bill will exacerbate threats to national security and public safety. they go on to say quote it will further expose uscis agency as inept with an already proposed massive increase in case flow that the agency is ill prepared to handle close quote. in other words, they re not able to handle the flow they ve got now and this is going to promote a disastrous flow that will make them look inept, they re afraid, correctly, people will come back and say you let terrorists in the country, you let criminals this the country and they had no way, no way possible to properly process these matters. they go on to make a strong statement. these are people who serve our country, who are not not allowed to participate in drafting the legislation. quote the proposal goes out of its way to provide legalization for criminal offenders while making it more difficult for the adjudications officers to identify threats to t
amendment is not agreed to. the recorded vote is requested. the chair now recognizes the gentleman for the explanation and presentation of his amendment. thank you, mr. chairman. another set of issues surrounding guantanamo has to do with the cost to the american taxpayer of continuing this situation. and the purpose of my agenda my amendment, rather, is to not compound the mistake that s already been made. guantanamo was deliberately created as a nether land in the law that was neither subject to the geneva convention or the u.s. constitution so we could make up the rules as we went along. a lot of people that know more than this than us have concluded it was not a good idea, general petraeus, admiral mullgeneral petraeus said guantanamo had become a recruiting device for extremists around the world. we just had a stimulating debate what to do next with the people that were detained there and is something we have to decide. here s something else we have to decide. we hav