troops. the president is also considering deploying a and nato allies. in would be a major . president biden writes he is considering deploying thousands of u.s. troops. an expansion of military involvement amid mounting fears of a russian encouragement in the ukrainian. it will signal a major pivot of the biden administration. it was up until recently talking about a stance on ukraine. but if president vladimir putin has ramped up his threatening actions to ukraine and talks have failed to discourage discourage him, the administration is moving away from its provoked strategy. that is the new york times sweet this morning. the associated press, another report this morning. nato is sending ships just east as iron ireland rejects . here s the story on that with the headline. the headline from the associated press. nato sends ships, shut sees as ireland rejects russia s drones appeared they are putting extra forces on standby and sending more ships in eastern europe. ne
apparently that s old fashioned now. so do you see that expanding more? yes, congressman cummings. not my thing. i m talking about absolutely. hypergrowth. hypergrowth. the challenge is it s a very competitive delivery space. we compete for customers every day. it s the value proposition. competitive pricing, transit time performance and visibility. and the postal service has made investments in all of those components to insure we improve our competitive standing. we need to recognize while our strength is last mile delivery, we re challenged there. the so-called uberization of package delivery is very competitive. we recognize we have to compete for that business. the challenge ultimately for us, the package growth alone won t offset the losses in first-class volume. hence the need to address the legacy costs specifically looking at medicare integration as a cornerstone of our legislative ask. thank you, mr. chairman. i now recognize the gentleman from texas, mr
from its public website. on march 7th the irs reported that it was temporarily suspending us of the ip-pin application as part of an ongoing security review. the irs does not anticipate having the technology in place for either the get transcript or ip-pin application to provide multifactor authentication capability before the summer of 2016. the number and sophistication of threats to taxpayer information will likely continue to increase and these threats will be a continued focus of our audit and investigative activity. chairman hatch, ranking member widen, members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to share my views. thank you so much. we appreciate having your views and will now turn to mr. dadaro and i understand the other two witnesses will be here to answer questions if necessary. thank you very much, mr. chairman. good morning to you. ranking member wyden, members of the committee, we re pleased to discuss gao s work related to computer security at ir
we are live on capitol hill this morning where irs commissioner john koskinen is set to testify on cybersecurity. he ll be appearing before the senate finance committee. live coverage here on c-span 3. we expect it to start in just a few minutes. again, waiting for the start of testimony from irs commissioner john koskinen this morning. he ll be talking about cybersecurity and how the irs protects the information of taxpayers. this is taking place before the senate finance committee. just a couple moments away. while we wait for this to get started, elsewhere on capitol hill today, visits continue for supreme court justice nominee merrick garland. he s meeting with 14 senators today, seven democrats, six republicans and one independent. so far, he has had meetings with 21 senators, 18 democrats, 3 republicans. one-on-one meetings with senators to take place in their offices today. senate judiciary committee chair chuck grassley was up first and they started at about the 7:45
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