Tell michelle i said hi. Irs commissioner John Koskinen delivered the keynote address at a luncheon hosted by the National Press club here in washington, d. C. Ahead of tomorrows tax day, he focused on efforts the federal agency has made to better meet taxpayer needs for filing taxes. After his remarks, commissioner koskinen took questions from the auds je audience. I served as the 104th president of the club, and im standing in today for our 110th president who is away on assignment because we still has to make a paycheck as opposed to this volunteer gig. Island li id like to welcome our public radio and cspan audiences today. You can follow the action on twitter using npclive. Id ask that you each of you stand briefly as your name is announced. To the audience, please hold your applause until i have finish finished introducing the entire head table. Government executive media group. A senior associate editor. Dell wilber, reporter with los angeles times. Mark schiff, Senior Reporter
Wanted to be a writer. Ive always been intrigued by crime and police work and how they do they jobs and thats how i got into this. I work for the Baltimore Sun covering the police department. In fact i had the job not long after david simon had the job and hes the guy who wrote homicide, life on the street and the wire. I wanted to do Something Like he did. I reached out to the son of the secret Service Agent in my first book rawhide down. I said i wondered if you would allow me to trail your Homicide Department around. He said sure. I only made one provision and i said id like someone to the department to review the manuscript before its published to raise objections to information that might harm a witness or in danger prosecution they did that and the only thing they came up with that they didnt really like, there were some minor things i was able to tweak like some information that might identify a potential witness that i didnt think was important but thats why they do this. Then
Labor secretary now. And theyre probably in that order. His preference would be kathy ruemmelre. He likes her and works very closely with her. Perez. N verrilli and host any potential with the top candidate, kathy ruemmelre . Guest shes going to provide a straight shot avenue into the white house Decision Making process. Everything from the higherups, benghazi, whatever, shes going to provide advice to the president about those issues. And the republicans are going to want the paperwork on that and theyre going to want her to answer questions about that and people will say don verrilli also you know, is going to have that same problem but some others dont think so. Mostly because if we know what he thinks, theres no surprises. Hes argued this stuff before in the Supreme Court in a very public fashion. So those are the two choices. Host when is the president going to make his decision and when might with see action on the hill on this . Guest the white house said after the elections. Af
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