Effectively and with integrity. What does your background have to be . Well, the statute that created inspectors general stetz that iegs need to have generated expertise in a number of professions, any one of them, auditing, investigations, Law Enforcement, public management, and above all, be people of the integrity. How long have you been the Inspector General for the Agriculture Department. Since december of 2002. How would you drip this specific job at agriculture . At agriculture, my job is to oversee the operations of all of usd as programs to make sure that they are being delivered as effectively as possible. And so what that means on a daytoday basis is that we in the iags office conduct audits to make sure that programs are running effectively, that improper payments are not going out the door. And we also conduct investigations. When ever there are allegations of wrongdoing in a program, either by a Department Employee or by a person whos receiving benefits, its our jurts dic
Activities. How long have you been there . Since 2002. Who appointed you . The president. The president i believe it was president george bush appointed me to the agriculture position. What kind of autonomy do you e . Igsas you know by statute are considered to be officials who must operate independently. What that means is that although we are located within our own agencies and departments, we are under the general supervision of agriculture. We have professional independence to exercise our judgment as to what issues no ed to be looked at, how were going go about looking at them, and ultimately what we report to congress, the president , and the secretary. How many people work for you . Currently we have 530 employees at usaig. Where are they locate . Our staff is located around the country. We have a large presence for washington, d. C. We have a large presence in the major federal cities around the country, chicago, atlanta, california, San Francisco bay area, texas, and kansas ci
Them. And then you destroy yourself. Now, think about the brilliance no, seriously of that statement. He identified hate as the poison that grows too much of watergate, too much of the mentality in his white house. And to his credit, at that moment, hes giving up the presidency, which he had fought all his life for. He is detached intellectually enough to realize what had happened, that the hating had an impact on those he hated and what occurred and investigations and so forth. But that it had destroyed him. Time, tosistant at the , k and to the same conclusion. Came to the same conclusion. Wed like to take questions. Lets go. Ok. John, thank you. Mr. Woodward, where and when did you first meet mark felt . In the white house when i was in the navy. One of the jobs admiral moore, who i was working for, gave me the job to be a courier to take documents over to the white house. This was in my last year in the navy, 1969, 1970, and i went outside the situation room and i was supposed to d
She is a single mom and also happens to be a republican. She provides for her son on a two string budget and is proud she has not had to turn to public assistance. Because she falls within the bottom 20 of kansas wage earners, she is paying 50 more in kansas income taxes solely because of the governors economic experiment. We have to do better for people like mary. The choice we have in this election is about whether we are going to clean up the mess of the governor has created or we are going to hit the accelerator the governor says on more cuts to schools, more debt and a failed experiment. Chances cannot afford this. We have to go in a different direction, direction that prioritizes our schools and uses proven ways to grow our economy and that is exactly what i would do as governor. First question. Representative davis, you will have the opportunity to answer first. Education toomy to ebola, there is an air of uncertainty about the future. What will your administration do kansans .
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