Morning. This hearing will come to order. I want to welcome our witnesses, appreciate your time, your testimony, and look forward to your oral testimony and answering i think what will be some interesting questions. I frequently say from this podium that the General Accounting Office and Inspector Generals are, youre our go to agencies in government doing so much to root out and identify and eliminate waste, fraud prosecutor abruce bus, duplicate prod grams which is what this hearing is about is the reports by the gao that really started with the Pretty Simple amendment offered in 2010 by senator cole burn in the debyte bait over increase in debt sooelg ceiling. Something we all hate do, but it were going to do it its kind of nice to get some measure of control and a Pretty Simple concept asking the gao to start issuing reports, do inspections on different duplicated programs has resulted in 75 billion worth of savings over seven years, which is pretty remarkable based on the amount of
Daily many 1979 cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies. And is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. At a Senate Hearing on government waste federal officials testified about ways to save money by preventing fraud and removing a necessary regulation. Senator john johnson shares Homeland Security and Government Affairs committee. This is an hour and 0 minutes. 40 minutes. All right. [silence] morning this hearing will come to order. I want to welcome my witnesses, appreciate your time, your testimony, and look forward to your oral testimony and answering pretty interesting questions. I frequently say from this podium that general and Inspector Generals are, you know, our goal two agencies in government. Doing so much to route out and identify and eliminate ways fraud abuse and prals which this hearing is about is reports by gao that started with a simple amendment offering and by senator colburn in increase in debt ceiling someth
To talk about funding for various Treasury Department programs. This is long over an hour and a half. Welcome to everybody. Good morning. Senator coons, senator lankford, looking at earlier. Today with the opportunity to review the budget request of the department of the treasury and the Internal Revenue service. As we begin this important hearing, we welcome our witnesses with us today treasury secretary steven mnuchin, irs commissioner John Koskinen and the treasury ig for Tax Administration, russell george. Thank you for being here. The department of the treasury ahas an important mission. Its work is to promote Economic Growth and stability and safeguard our Financial Systems, which is critical to maintaining a Strong Economy and creating economic opportunity. Equally important is its work to combat terrorism. The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction money moneylaundering, Drug Trafficking and other National Security threats. The Internal Revenue service has significant rol
To talk about funding for various Treasury Department programs. This is long over an hour and a half. Welcome to everybody. Good morning. Senator coons, senator lankford, looking at earlier. Today with the opportunity to review the budget request of the department of the treasury and the Internal Revenue service. As we begin this important hearing, we welcome our witnesses with us today treasury secretary steven mnuchin, irs commissioner John Koskinen and the treasury ig for Tax Administration, russell george. Thank you for being here. The department of the treasury ahas an important mission. Its work is to promote Economic Growth and stability and safeguard our Financial Systems, which is critical to maintaining a Strong Economy and creating economic opportunity. Equally important is its work to combat terrorism. The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction money moneylaundering, Drug Trafficking and other National Security threats. The Internal Revenue service has significant rol
To talk about funding for various Treasury Department programs. This is long over an hour and a half. Welcome to everybody. Good morning. Senator coons, senator lankford, looking at earlier. Today with the opportunity to review the budget request of the department of the treasury and the Internal Revenue service. As we begin this important hearing, we welcome our witnesses with us today treasury secretary steven mnuchin, irs commissioner John Koskinen and the treasury ig for Tax Administration, russell george. Thank you for being here. The department of the treasury ahas an important mission. Its work is to promote Economic Growth and stability and safeguard our Financial Systems, which is critical to maintaining a Strong Economy and creating economic opportunity. Equally important is its work to combat terrorism. The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction money moneylaundering, Drug Trafficking and other National Security threats. The Internal Revenue service has significant rol