Congress, including the first africanamerican republican in the house, and the first woman veteran in the senate. Keep track of members of congress on cspan. Org. The congressional chronicle page as lots of good information including Voting Results and statistics. Irs commissioner John Koskinen tuesday on the 2016 budget request before the Senate Finance committee. He discussed tax scams, and shortages at the irs. The president s budget calls for an 18 increase for the agency. This is just over two hours. Welcome to the irs commissioner John Koskinen. Also fiscal year 2016 Budget Proposal. Commissioner koskinen. 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,
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Them. There are two percent of Business Owners who are in the above 100 . To ey have a year time has expired. Mr. Mcdermott . Take a breath. Your budget contained several proposals for actual reforms to medicare, all of which will increase the cost for beneficiaries. What i do not see in your budget is medicare reforms that ask dividers and pharmaceutical companies to share in the pain. Frankly, that concerns me. Theink they ought to share pain between the providers and those who benefit from medicare. As you know the and fisheries and a disproportionate share of their income on health care compared to those others under age 65. Medicare patients pay more. I understand these proposals, while the concern we were put into the budget is a part of a socalled big bold balancedbudget deficit reduction plan, one that calls for sire advice shared sacrifice among retired americans. Let me ask this question. Completely seems to be around here is much different is that you can cherry pick those m
Deal but one chair and can and did hold up the cyber bill until just recently. They did a program governor thompson referred to because they also have a referral and stopped the legislation from moving to the floor. I think it is counterproductive and dysfunctional and quite honestly that hurts the American People because we cant pass legislation that can protect them and in addition the oversight issue with 100 committees and subcommittees how can the secretary j. Johnson who had a Great Respect and admiration how can he do his job when hes constantly preparing for testimony and he has a very important job and the whole legislative shock us to do that. You look at the judiciary and it has the department of justice. They have the entire department of defense. Why doesnt the committee on Homeland Security have jurisdiction over the entire department of Homeland Security and not have to deal with all of these offshoots . We are passing bills to demonstrate the leadership from any other c
Well thank you all for being here on Climate Smart from farm to building Food Supply Chains. We will review pathways to create a sustainable, affordable food chain that is resill yept in the face of Climate Change. We will examine opportunities for the food systems to be a climate solution while supporting human health and livelihood and i recognize myself for five minutes. Scorching temperatures and widespread disasters are putting lives at risk and harming communities across america. This week, families in southWest Virginia were the latest to face deadly floods like those that swept through Yellowstone National park. At the same time there is too little water across much of the west leading to wildfires and dangerously low levels. And stretched and forcing families and industries alike or risk air potential blackout and europe is facing what could be the worst heat wave in 200 years. So it was disappointing to learn that senator manchin is rejecting investments to address this inves