The period we propose for you to decide on is for three months. Amy as french prosecutors say the suspected mastermind of paris attacks killed in police raid on a paris apartment that resulted in eight arrest in two deaths. His remains were just identified. Meanwhile, french lawmakers are debating a proposal to extend the state of emergency. The measure would grant president hollande a sweeping extension of state powers, including easing police raids without a warrant and allowing the government to strip citizenship from dual passport holders convicted of terrorism. Well get reaction from Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Glenn Greenwald. Well also discuss what hes called the cias exploitation of the paris attack after cia director john brennan said revelations about mass spying have made it harder to find terrorists. In the past several years because of a number of unauthorized disclosures and a lot of handwringing over the governments role in the effort to try to uncover these terrori
Noted in my testimony in 2013 as a result of spending and Information Technology the Information Technology business, modernization problem for the irs was taken of the highrisk list having been there for 14 years. It was proven in the i t area that if we have the funding we can make significant progress. Is great for the i t area but other areas need to be addressed and 25 years is far too long. Time to put some teeth into it. I now recognize the gentleman from florida for five minutes. Commissioner koskinen, a year ago the senior irs leaders and learned lois lerners hard drive had crashed. There was an issue about getting her emails off of backup tapes, you wrote a letter to Senate Finance in june of 2014 saying there were problems with her emails and backup tapes had been destroyed. And on june 20th you testified before the ways and means committee, went to Great Lengths and made extraordinary efforts to recover lower as lerners email please let me ask you this, after the irs began
Agree more. We hope the congress will enact a new authorization based upon the principles that we are outlining here today. I want to thank you mr. President , and i hope that our colleagues will take this seriously and hopefully we can turn this mess around. With that, i suggest the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. Quorum call mr. Hatch mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from utah. Mr. Hatch i suggest the quorum call be suspended. The presiding officer without objection. Morning business is closed. Under the previous order the senate will proceed to executive session to consider the following nomination which the clerk will report. The clerk nomination. Executive office of the president , michael p. Botticelli of the District Of Columbia to be director of the National Drug control policy. The presiding officer under the previous order, there will be 30 minutes of debate equally divided. Mr. Hatch i notice the absence of a quorum. T
Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for coming out to our first public event of the year for the task force. Let me thank the Atlantic Council and the Plowshares Fund for the generous support. We have been going on for four years and i must say that the news keeps getting better. Some positive indications about the nuclear talks. But we are here to talk about the people to people aspects of the u. S. Iran relationship which are maybe more important in some ways than the technicalities of how many centrifuges iran is allowed to have your want more interaction between the peoples of iran and the United States. I coordinate the Iran Task Force here at the Atlantic Council. Im delighted to have a speaker with us today, someone who has been involved with a run for many years to someone who has also just had their first visit there. A former first term congressman from the Second District of kansas, during his tenure he was a member of the house energy and commerce committee, which has broad
Against the people who were obstructionist. And the other lesson that i will never forget is that the year following when i ran for reelection, we almost doubled the voter or turnout. Almost doubled the voter turnout from what it had been when i first won. And the lesson that i will never forget and what i believe is that when you stand up for people and you keep your promise, people will, in fact, get involved in politics. So i think it was true then, and i think its true today. Um, in 1986 i ran for governor of the state of vermont as an independent, received 14 of the vote. 1988 i ran for the u. S. Congress, and in that election i was told by my democratic friends that i would be a spoiler, taking away votes and enabling the republican candidate to win. In fact, the republican candidate did win with 41 of the vote. Hydro 38 . Enabling the republican i got 38 . Democrat got 19 . Two years later i ran again for congress defeating the incumbent by 16 points. In 2006 with the retirement