All can say is, the more i look into this the more i worry about the problems that are involved. Are a other hand, there lot of good people in this industry who are trying to do and who do do what is right. I want to look at this very carefully. I dont want another big bureaucratic institution to make it even more expensive to file tax returns. For tax certain feeling person as well. Your helping us to understand this better. Hopefully you will continue to weigh in and give us your ideas on how we might do a better job here. Thanks so much. On the next washington journal, democratic and republican strategists join us for look ahead to the midterm elections and the 2016 president ial race. We will also examine the latest developments in ukraine with former u. S. Ambassador to nato, kurt volker. Our guest is kelly lonnie. Today on newsmakers, we are latte. By bob good he will talk about changing the nsa Surveillance Program and oversight of the Justice Department. Newsmakers is at 10 00
The laboratory was put here because they could grow the plants onsite and do the preliminary research. It is exciting project. The laboratory is interesting for many reasons. Part of the reason this lab was so important is that caused the government to come forward with what was called the patent, the u. S. Patent law. Which said if you invented something with plants, and it processs worthy of worthy of patenting, it was issued a patent. History and, the literary life of fort myers florida, including a stop at the botanical research laboratory. On cspan2 and cspan3. And taxnment officials preparers told the Senate Finance committee that a simpler tax code in the National Licensing are the rest bang the best policies for preventing fraud. Included h in our ceo h r block ceo. They were also asked about the legend irs targeting. This hearing is 2. 5 hours. The finance committee will come to order. There is just a week to go before the april 15 deadline. Millions of americans are spending
Live at 2 30 p. M. Here on cspan. Edison was a plant scientist as well as interested in other sciences. He knew that it did not freeze in fort myers. A lot of the interest that he had here in this area was aced on his love of plants. 1920s, the United States was relying on foreign rubber. We were heading into war. The decided that the plant material and the process should be done in this country. They were traveling all over the world and collecting plants. They had hundreds of people all over this country collecting plant. They were sending it back here to fort myers, to his laboratory, to find the source of plant materials that could produce robert efficiently. Laboratory was put here because of that reason. They could grow the plants onsite and in duty preliminary research on site. It was an exciting process. The laboratory was interesting because at that line in American History, there was no patent chemicals. Plants or part of the reason why this lab was so important was that it c
American historians, is that right . Gas . And when he goes on tour with Thomas Jefferson to promote the bill of rights the constitutional amendments as well as becoming more acquainted with the country as he charmingly put it the to famously Founding Fathers didnt get along very well. They visited Newport Rhode island as you know. This sounds to me like, it sounded to myself like the kind of cross between a stuffy professor and keith richards. [laughter] they go to Newport Rhode island in the blazing august of 1790 and famously they have a wonderful visit and a letter has been written to them by the leader of the tourists center. Its really a beautiful place if you have never been there and it has inside this extraordinary made of deer skin which sounds very american but theres this extraordinarily beautiful rubicon tawny color. It probably was from ever on a family from some identified place after the explosion in 1492. Washington goes and has written this charming letter in which th
Its very transactional. And being able to look at a potential action and trying to connect it to something larger is hard. Looking at an action and saying, okay, what it this becomes public . Can i explain it . Of i cant explain it, dont do it. Later on, the head of Strategic Communication for general petraeus sat down with the Al Jazeera Bureau chief, and he said, heres what your guys were doing that caused us concern. And the Al Jazeera Bureau chief says they were violating our guidelines on reporting. Hmm. And so the moral of the story is, why dont we start there . Have that conversation first and say, you know, weve got a problem. Either you solve the problem or well solve the problem. But doing it where you are able to handle the situation with Public Diplomacy in mind before it pops interest the open before it becomes a crisis, before it becomes a headline, an unflattering portrayal in this publication or that publication. Thats the mindset we have to have. And in a way, im alway