Us to prevent iran from obtaining a Nuclear Weapon is through principle diplomacy and agreement thats structured exactly like this one, that requires iran to take some significant steps to curtail their Nuclear Program and to agree to have those steps be rigorously verified by the International Community. Ash carter is going to be in israel next week. Hes going to be asking sort of what the israelis need. What if the israelis ask for these bunkerbusting bombs and equipment that would allow them to do this bombing grade on their own. How would the u. S. Respond to those requests . I dont want to preview those conversations at this point. As a general matter, i can tell you that part of the message that secretary carter will be delivering when he travels to israel, and i believe this will be his first trip as secretary of defense to israel, that the message hell be delivering is that the United States and president obama himself is committed to strengthening the Security Cooperation rela
Committee come to order, house bill 1124. May postpone proceedings on measure matter adopting amendment on which recorded vote is ordered. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. First item House Resolution 737 condemning and censuring commissioner of Internal Revenue service, the clerk will designate the resolution. House resolution 737. Condemning and censure John Koskinen international revenue. Issued a subpoena to John Koskinen. Ask it read and be opened at any time. Without objection, so order. Now recognize myself for five minutes to explain resolution. Complying with subpoena is mandatory, not optional. Truthfully testifying before congress is also mandatory. When a senior official doesnt fulfill core duties of compliance with subpoena and testifying truthfully to congress, there must be repercussions. House resolution 737 as introduced is a necessary repercussion for irs commissioner John Koskinen. His conduct deserves condemnation and censur
Still unanswered questioned. Why did they delay for several months notifying congress, the Justice Department, and the American People about the problems with miss learners email. The Deputy Attorney general told us that she learned from press accounts in the media. One of the highest profile investigations in years and the Justice Department has to learn about Critical Evidence by the central player in this investigation. They learn about that in news accounts, not directly from the Internal Revenue service. Thats why last week, Deputy Attorney general cole said he would have liked to have known about the emails earlier and announced that the Justice Department was investigation why the commissioner failed to disclose the missing emails in a timely manner. Let me reiterate. James cole, Deputy Attorney general, United States department of justice, said last week in that same chair to this same committee, that theyre investigating why the Internal Revenue Service Delayed months in telli
Lets take the number that you know, seven, that you testified. That still would be four times greater than your overall average. Can you explain that . I dont know what the details were. I do know when i asked for the industry statistics, once you get beyond the warranty period, the failure rate goes to 10 to 15 . Lois lerners laptop was a new laptop. It was not an old one. And actually, the probability of her hard drive failing at that time was at the lowest, according to industry standards, was at the lowest possible time. Does that surprise you . No. But it does surprise you that her hard drive failed . No, my understanding about it is from the industry is its 2 to 5 depending on computers will regularly fail. So out of this circle. If you have ten times that amount, would you say thats an anomaly. If you had ten times an amount, that would be an anomaly. I dont know whether well, im giving you the numbers. If you stipulate you have ten times as many as the industry average, that wo
That information was provided to the ways and Means Committee. We have not been able to pursue whether there are 6, 12 or 15 because once the ig started, we agreed we would not pursue those issues until they completed their investigation. Now, just a last question. When the doj was here the other day, and this was you were asked about this a bit earlier. They talked about the fact that they had not gotten information about the crash back in april. So they got it in june, i think, like everybody else. Why is that . When we in april, determined that in fact there had been a hard drive crash and some emails may have been lost, our next step was to in fact investigate how many emails did we actually have and could we find, and our plan and proposal was we would pull all of that information together, including information about custodians and make a public presentation to the committees including a description of why it takes us so long in our archaic system to actually respond to requests