20,200 per year. He would earn enough to bring that family out of poverty. Not only would it put more hardearned money into the pockets of 28 million americans, many millions of them would be pulled out of poverty, it is also good for business. Let me tell you why. There is clear data that shows had the benefit of their of least turnover and more productivity. The minimum wage would generate an additional 19 billion in additional income for people who need it the most. The big difference between giving a raise and the minimum wage is instead of a tax break to the wealthy, they are living on the edge. Needed to pay their electric bill, put gas in the automobile, to find accessories. This generates Economic Growth in the communities. Companies big and small recognize these benefits. In atlantatly georgia and met the owner of a small advertising company. He independently raised the wages of his workers to 10. 10 per hour. Choosing the gap are to give their a ploy ease higher wages. Their
Access to 501 c 3 and 501 c 4 stacks extell status. Do you read that in the declaration of independence . I dont read that no it doesnt read that way. So its not really an explicit entitlement or right. Its a process you have to qualify for, is that correct . Correct. There are many different ways of trying to figure out how somebody qualifies, and whether they qualify, is that correct . Yes. And by and large, historically, irs has had a Standard Operating Procedure for determining those that status. Either 501 c 3 or 501 c 4 or other status. Is that correct . Correct. In this particular case, what were all excited about is that a filter was created in a Regional Office that seemed to target people for their political views, both right and left, but apparently mostly right. Is that right . They were as noted, inappropriate criteria used primarily 9 name of the organization to select them for further review. Now one of the problems with that here is an add verb. The word used in the sta
Ago you could have pumped out of all of lois lerner emails and dumped them on Senate Finance and ways and means. You did not do that. The eventually negotiated to my consternation a subset of all of her emails. I find it less than helpful and i find youre talking about reduction in time to inappropriate when you couldve given ways and means all lois lerner emails in a matter of seconds. It really is that simple and i assume they have access to them. So i appreciate we will have to work with you to prioritize and we willingly always have. In the meks of the document production in which there are massive numbers of potential documents, we will particularly prioritize. For today for the record on behalf of people on both sides have spoken, lois lerner emails, all of lois lerner emails is the highest current priority of this committee and will remain so as long as im chairman. So im not going to get into january. I believe if your team had been actively working in a matter of days he would
A far greater priority. Even with the organizational boxes come if you do not fix the cultural problem, those organizational shifts will be meaningless. You have to really address some of these cultural issues. That is the secretaries challenge. That made you have to incentivize and have people have a positive solution oriented to start over. That is a very daunting prospect and that is when it comes to. Couple ofn to a specific questions. President obama made clear in his speech and identify that priority of strengthening operation and making progress on Nuclear Arms Control and sustaining a strong deterrent. Is a load the president above the nsa level. Mind, part of the government appointed at, there is that capability. The capability will need strong backing. There is always resistance to change. Think there are some cases that would question whether we have got people on the job that are up to it. There are a lot of people who are very good. This is a casebycase issue. That you can
Do you have any privilege or any reason that you cant and shouldnt have delivered that months ago . You seem to have more information about this than i do. We have 90,000 employees and my understanding of the process is that to go through all of those emails, which are millions of emails to make sure we have not only the outgoing emails but the incoming emails is not a matter of a few minutes or a few hours. But in any event we have provided for all of those or in the process of providing all of the information and all of the emails related to the determinations process, and we have commissioner thats not that is not the subpoena. And i want to be very clear. We issued you lawful subpoenas because you didnt cooperate based on letters. Our subpoena says all of lois lerners emails. Is it your position today that you intend to give us those responsive to some key search word or you intend to give us all of lois lerners emails . All of holly pazs emails, all of William Wilkins emails, all