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
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
Shot, itainly a long think there are republicans out there may be including tom cole who are hoping for this to end up in a contested convention with paul ryan is the dark horse nominee. Prospects arethe as good as he is seen them in as many years in politics. He suggested donald trump does not have the requisite number of delegates, anything could happen. Host it will be interesting to watch over the next couple of months. Thank you for being our guest this week. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the need for horses on the farm began to decline radically in the 1930s. Thats not until the 1930s they figured out how to make a rubber tire big enough to fit on a tractor. Andting in the 19 30s 1940s, you had an almost complete replacement of horses as the work animals on farms. I read that in the decade after world war ii, we had S
I am pretty busy trying to get Congress Moving in the right direction. Will be tough to be switzerland in a brokered convention. Oure really is so much leaders can do. Change a lotally of things going into the convention. For paul ryan, this is all he can do right now. Night. Come in as a white even floatedhner him as a potential nominee. T been supporting Bernie Sanders up to this point. My concern is that you look at the history. You had a brokered convention in 1968 in chicago. The democrats were basically out of office until watergate. Realistically, it would have not. Een for the watergate scandal my concern is as a sanders reporter supporter, is the fact that millions of voters have chosen for their candidate and the bosses have the option to ignore them. Wonderingd, i am whether a million voter march in cleveland with help people do the right thing. Give these invisible voters who they neglect. Would be a little harder to neglect them if there were 2 Million People standing outs
Steve is on the republican line. Go ahead. Caller thank you. Sharingery much for your time with cspan viewers this 40s. House wharton prides itself on graduate disruptors, and they did a good job with donald. If hillary starts to stumble with her email debacle, would there be time for donald to get on the ballot in all 50 states can see. Thirdparty what happens if he wins a plurality of the votes if he does that . Thank you very much. Guest that is a really important point. Time is already running sure if someone wants to run as a thirdparty because a lot of the ballot deadlines are coming up. If donald trump or anybody were to wait after a convention, it would be too late to get on the ballot. Host there is a piece from the National Journal, halla contested gop nomination, kids contested Gop Convention complicates the veepstakes. Guest it is a unique aspect of this. That is something that my colleague wrote at the National Journal this week. Af it is a convention contested convention,