Capital. With i served as the 100 fourth president of the club, and im standing in today for our 110th president , jeffrey bah lieu whos away on assignment because he still has to make a paycheck via his employer as opposed to this volunteer gig and probably submit his tax return as well. Id like to welcome our public radio and cspan audiences today and id like to remind you that you can follow the action on twitter using the hash tag pound mpc live. Now its time to pro tro deuce our head table guests and id ask each of you stand briefly as your name is anoinsd to the audience id ask that you please hold your aplows until ive finished announce the the the entire head table. From your right my left Charles Clark senior correspondent, government executive media group, mark wine know, Senior Associate Editor of kip linger personal finance and proud Buffalo Bills fan. Dell quinton wilbur reporter, los angeles times. Mark chef Senior Reporter investment news. Alley verse pill, federal tax r
With the failure to pass the bill in congress, some states are looking to expand medicaid, some additional states. Menstruates are talking to cms about what might be possible in the way theyre talking about waivers, what can be done. And so today well talk about our our goal for this panel is to both talk about where we are going into this next year, so where we are, what the aca did, where we are with medicaid, what is under discussion, and well talk about the considerations and possible implications moving forward. So, we are lucky to have with us today three exceptional panelists. Theres one empty estate and that belongs to trish riley, but because of the crazy weather in trish wont be able to get into town and so she will not be with us but fear not, our three other panelists here watch what is happening in the states closely and will be able to give us a full puck picture. First we have Diann Rowland from the Kaiser Family foundation. Diane was also the inaugural chair of macpack,
Cable television or satellite provider. Now, irs commissioner John Koskinen talks about Identity Theft. This is about one hour. Good afternoon and welcome to the press club where news happens here in the nations capital. Im standing in today for our 110th president , jeffrey bah lieu whos away on assignment because he still has to make a paycheck via his employer as opposed to this volunteer gig and probably submit his tax return as well. Id like to welcome our public radio and cspan audiences today and id like to remind you that you can follow the action on twitter using the hash tag pound mpc live. Now its time to pro tro deuce to introduce our head table guests and id ask each of you stand briefly as your name is announced to the audience id ask that you please hold your applause until ive finished announce the the the entire head table. From your right my left Charles Clark senior correspondent, government executive media group, mark wine know, Senior Associate Editor of kip linger
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
Table. Government executive media group. Mark wineo, senior associate editor, proud Buffalo Bills fan. Mark chef, Senior Reporter at investment news. Margaret johnson, Information Technology specialist for the irs, a guest of our speaker. Alli verspill, michael lynn, digit digital strategist. Lisa matthews, the npc headliners cochair who organized today. Skipping over our guest for the moment, kelly herb, Senior Editor at forbes. Lawyer ri russo. Thank you for helping out today. Meg megan o neil. And caroline block. Thank you all, and a round of applause, please. [ applause ] in what has become a National Press Club Tradition we have grateful that the commissioner has accepted our invitation to talk about all thing ace soesso with that five letter word, taxes. They run from soccer to taxes to how computers to react to once in one thousand year events. The budget blueprint called for a 239 million cut to the irs budget following the demise of the Health Care Act in the house. Lawmakers