Tackle a worldwide problem. Saturday, september 28th, 2013. Captioning funded by cbs and welcome to the weekend and welcome to annemarie green. Thank you. Its nice to be here. And were going to begin this morning with a hints of the thaw in the long frozen relations between the u. S. And iran. As the iranian president was leaving new york after this weeks u. N. General assembly session, he spoke by phone with president obama. It was the first such conversation between u. S. And iranian leaders since 1979. Kelly kolb yeah ya reports from our London Bureau roer. Reporter president obama made the call from the oval office, a 15 f h minute conversation with iranian president hasan rowhani. They talk bd the Nuclear Program and suggested the two country countries could become closer if they could break the nuclear standoff. He sate he would never develop nuclear weapons. I made clear that we respect the right for them to access Nuclear Activity in a peaceful operation. The test will be meani
E employees for tax exempt status. According to a 2013 letter to this committee this would be back when he were still there, the Internal Revenue service went to extraordinary length to cooperate with congress. The letter explains that the irs quote, protects the taxpayers specific information in them as required by law. Is that correct and if so, did you have a role in setting up that process . I had a role in advising and helping the people who were engaged in that process. Thank you. Mr. Chairman, i would ask unanimous consent to enter this august 2nd, 2013 letter into the record. That objection, so recorded. When the irs set up the process, what was the goal . The goal was to get as much informi information as much as the four different committees to get them what they needed in order to get them to conduct their investigations and do it with care and as quickly as we could. There appeared to be a lot of confusion about why the irs does d not discover the lost emails earlier. Lets
Protection of the fraud and abuse within the irs. Pretty big distinction. So let go down with some of those poiwers because the fbi i involved in criminal investigations and the Inspector General is involved in internal investigations. The Inspector General does not have the act to compel people to testify outside the irs is that correct. I believe thats correct. The fbi does, correct . Yes. Yes. So when the Inspector General undertakes an investigation of the irs, they are only going to be able to interview the people who are there. If theres somebody outside the irs who may have been involved or have information, the Inspector General falls short. They cant even do that with vo Inspector General. The ig doesnt have the ability to arrest people. I wasnt to be helpself. Ms. Oconnor you know the basic things. The five things i ask you will be simple. The ig cannot go arrest someone, right . Trust what youre say bug i havent reviewed the ig act. We both know the fbi can, correct. Yes. Ex
The cftc has already done. I urge my colleagues to support the commonsense amendment. Lets just do whats reflected here. I thank the gentleman for his input and yield back. The chair the gentleman yields back. The gentleman from new jersey your time is expired. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from new jersey. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from new jersey will e postponed. For what purpose does the gentleman from oklahoma rise . Mr. Lucas mr. Chairman, i move the committee do now rise. The chair the question is on the motion that the committee rise. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes have it. The motion is adopted. Accordingly, the committee rises. The speaker pro tempore mr. Chairman. The chair mr. Speaker, the committee of the whole house on the state of the union, having had under consider
A survey asked travelers about all the add on fees and their answers may surprise you. Lets go outside to david murphy who is enjoying being on the patio and karen rogers has traffic. Reporter lets look at satellite, we dont have a lot of the clouds, a little over south jersey. Theres more out by pittsburgh, but thats not an issue for us overnight and tomorrow, where there will be more of a sun and clouds mix. 58 degrees in the vicinity of millville thanks sam. 62 in wilmington, 63 in trenton. 58 in allentown, weve slipped a little bit there. Sea isle, 70 degrees, noon, 79 and 3 00 p. M. , 84 degrees thats the high today. It wont be all that humid, so a pretty comfortable day, of course, you will need your sunscreen because the u vivment index is uv index is high today. When i step inside its more humid tomorrow, by wednesday we could be looking at heavy thunderstorms, karen, details coming up in the 7 day. Lets hit the road. We have a new traffic pattern change on i95 southbound looki