Congressman delauro or congressman reed need any introduction whatsoever. I have always been haunted by something barney frank said once when he was introduced somewhere, saying now barney frank, who needs no introduction. His response was, just once, id like to hear that introduction that people dont think i need. Rosa de lauro is a congressman from my hometown in new haven. She comes from a very strong line of women politicians. Her mom was an alderman and now 103 years old. Rosa has been in Congress Since 1991 and before that was on the staff of senator chris dod. I learned by reading her official bio you are a member of 62 different house caucuses. You cant possibly go to 62 house caucus meetings. No. Tom reed comes from the Finger Lakes Region of new york. Has been in Congress Since, i forgot, 2010. Somewhat less service than rosa. So he was, before he came to washington, he was the mayor of corning, new york which is relevant because we have had a lot of conversations today about
0 degree weather back that we had in december. In kentucky people were stuck for hours after accidents forced accidents to close interstate 75 in both actions. Wind gusts up to 50 Miles Per Hour are creating blizzardlike conditions. Authorities encouraged people to watch out for one another. Take care of your neighbors, especially those who are senior or handicap. Here in washington dc this could be one of the worse storms to ever hit. 2 feet of snow or more could be on the ground by the end of the weekend. Residents are being told to stay home. The citys subway system is shut down new until until at least sunday. To close it down inside is ridiculous. At the airports travelers face another frustrating day. More than 7,000 flights were canceled on friday and saturday. Jenner brimmer is trying to get just here for meetings. I have my briefcase, computer and phone and thats about it. Forecasters expect the storm to move out by sunday giving millions a day to dig out before the new work w
Our system, all of it was customized and developed in the 50s and 60s. Weve replaced that system with those expenditures. But we still have over 50 applications that need to be replaced. But to show what weve been able to do that, that refund app got 200 million hits last year. 150 million returns across just 85 are processed electronically. That was not only not possible, it was inconceivable 15 years ago. We have made substantial strides. But the 300 million on the Affordable Care act are all challenges for us. Fortunately, the Filing Season this year has been implemented. We have 145,000 foreign Financial Institutions about to provide us data under the foreign account Tax Compliance act. All of those systems had to be built and rebuilt to obama sosh that data. If we could continue with the refund the resources we needed, wed get rid of a lot of these systems. Taxpayers would be able to go on line, as they do with bank of america, wells fargo or fidelity and deal with us without pape
Thank you, mr. Chairman. Commissioner, welcome. I joined with other members of this Committee Last year on a letter to you after it was reported by the Inspector General for Tax Administration that more than 1100 employees had been awarded over a Million Dollars in cash rewards and more than 10,000 in timeoff awards. You made no commitments nor did you set any deadlines. And i know that youve talked a little bit about this already this morning. I just wanted, for the record to get you to speak clearly on this issue. It seems to me that its awfully hard to go to the hardworking american taxpayers and ask them to come ply with the tax laws when you have employee ins your own organization that dont comply. Can you commit to me that you are going to fix this problem and ensure that thats not going to happen again in the future . We have already adopted policies to address the problem. Not engaged in installment agreements, who are becoming compliant. But we still count those as compliant.
Congress, including the first africanamerican republican in the house, and the first woman veteran in the senate. Keep track of members of congress on cspan. Org. The congressional chronicle page as lots of good information including Voting Results and statistics. Irs commissioner John Koskinen tuesday on the 2016 budget request before the Senate Finance committee. He discussed tax scams, and shortages at the irs. The president s budget calls for an 18 increase for the agency. This is just over two hours. Welcome to the irs commissioner John Koskinen. Also fiscal year 2016 Budget Proposal. Commissioner koskinen. More than 152 years ago the finance Committee Received a letter from george butwell who president lincoln had apointed as the first commissioner of the international revenue. The letter came in response to an inquiry from the committee seeking information about the commissioners organization, his budget and the activities of his office. Does that sound familiar . In his letter,