Correct . Yes or no . Im not going to do that. But you did say that. Are you expanding your authority here with this proposal . No. None whatsoever. No. Why have the new rule, then . Because the existing rule, as i mentioned, is based on flawed approaches to determining jurisdiction, is actually more broad than the Supreme Court has asked us to let me ask you this, then. Do you believe that this rule improves the overall clarity of epas jurisdiction or authority . Yes or no . Yes. You think it does. Well, youre absolutely incorrect. You can see the questions were asking here. This rule is not needed. The Supreme Court didnt tell you to make a new rule. It said that you could, and to me, its expanding the authority in breach of the epa, and thats the reason theres so much discontent all across this country, not only in my state of georgia but in every state in this country because you all are expanding your authority. You talked about if anybody wants to put a pollutant into water, they
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District of columbia whose decided to expand medicaid. And obviously, if you look at a lot of independent studies, theres noticeable difference in the states that have decided to expand medicaid, in terms of lowering the number of uninsured. Were going to continue to work with those remaining 20 something, and we meet with them on a regular basis to do what we can to encourage folks to expand. By not participating, arent the states leaving billions of federal dollars on the table that could be used to improve the health of their own citizens . Yes, sir. They are. And its also has economic consequences for those states as well. Of course. Now, recently, some republican governors as youve alluded to who had originally refused to expand medicaid have now reconsidered their original decisions and have submitted Medicaid Expansion plans for cms approval, for instance, in my own state of pennsylvania, as you mentioned, they decided to expand medicaid which will now provide Health Insurance t
Thank you, mr. Chairman. Commissioner, welcome. I joined with other members of this Committee Last year on a letter to you after it was reported by the Inspector General for Tax Administration that more than 1100 employees had been awarded over a Million Dollars in cash rewards and more than 10,000 in timeoff awards. You made no commitments nor did you set any deadlines. And i know that youve talked a little bit about this already this morning. I just wanted, for the record to get you to speak clearly on this issue. It seems to me that its awfully hard to go to the hardworking american taxpayers and ask them to come ply with the tax laws when you have employee ins your own organization that dont comply. Can you commit to me that you are going to fix this problem and ensure that thats not going to happen again in the future . We have already adopted policies to address the problem. Not engaged in installment agreements, who are becoming compliant. But we still count those as compliant.
Screeria nigeria. Anthony foxx. And a discussion about u. S. Cuban relations at the heritage foundation. The irs has asked congress to provide 12. 9 billion for funding in 2016. 18 more than the current fiscal year. Irs commissioner john kostka testified. The Senate Finance committee is chaired by utah republican orrin hatch. This is just over two hours. Welcome to the irs john cost koskinen koskinen. Also fiscal year 2016 Budget Proposal. Commissioner costkoskinen. More than 152 years ago the finance Committee Received a letter from george butwell who president lincoln had apointed as the first commissioner of the international revenue. The letter came in response to an inquiry from the committee seeking information about the commissioners organization, his budget and the activities of his office. Does that sound familiar . In his letter, dated january 21st 1863 commissioner bodwell tried to answer the committees questions by starting by first asking congress for more money. Specifica