And the person standing next to you does or doesnt have it. At 9 00 p. M. Eastern, hamilton playwright and actor Linmanuel Miranda accepts the u. S. Capitol Historical Society freedom award. When youre a kid you make friends from different grades and social groups. You learn to work hard to create something greater than the sum of your parts. And just for the sum of making something great, you learn to trust your passion and let it lead the way. Without humanities and arts programs, i wouldnt be standing here. And without Alexander Hamilton and the countless other immigrants who built this country, its very probable that very few of us would be here either. American history tv, all weekend, every weekend, only on cspan3. A former irs commissioner and also Taxpayer Advocates testify before the house ways and means subcommittee on oversight about resolving disputes between the irs and taxpayers. The witnesses said the dispute process should be simplified and made more user friendly. Welc
Second, it could be there and youve got it. And the person standing next to you does or doesnt have it. At 9 00 p. M. Eastern, hamilton playwright and actor Linmanuel Miranda accepts the u. S. Capitol Historical Society freedom award. When youre a kid you make friends from different grades and social groups. You learn to work hard to create something greater than the sum of your parts. And just for the sum of making something great, you learn to trust your passion and let it lead the way. Without humanities and arts programs, i wouldnt be standing here. And without Alexander Hamilton and the countless other immigrants who built this country, its very probable that very few of us would be here either. American history tv, all weekend, every weekend, only on cspan3. A former irs commissioner and also Taxpayer Advocates testify before the house ways and means subcommittee on oversight about resolving disputes between the irs and taxpayers. The witnesses said the dispute process should be
Image a bit, and i released it to our work force yesterday. So many people went online to look at the new video. We crashed the system. We had to start over again. But it will be released publicly today. I hope everybody here will take a look at it. With that, david, back over to you. Thank you, sir. Im going to do the ceremonial softball opening, then well go to brian bennett, julie davis, julie edwards, mark thompson, aaron kelley, and john stanton to start. A long line up. That should keep us going for awhile. I want to ask you how the threat has evolved during your time in office and what further changes you think are needed at dhs to deal with it. You had a fascinating conversation, i thought a fascinating conversation with the times last week. You talked about the rise of isil and the rise of terrorinspired attack where the operative may not have met another single other member. Never received a direct the order. You said that makes more a for complicated threat environment that
Consistency and adjudication. Part of that is training. Had approximately 20 training sessions delivered by cms, their doctors, their policy experts. To the Administrative Law judges since 2010. What you will see if you look at the Historical Data is the reversal rates have actually been going down. Were at a high in 2010, 50 5. 5 fully favorable and that is now down to 35. 2 . To 35. 2 . Do you think there is a better quality of decision . The case is coming up to you. They either make better decisions at a lower level where there is something that has happened at the alj with better training and youre making better decisions earlier in finding people fully favorable more often than what would be consistent with policy. Or joint training leading to better consistency among different adjudication levels. Say in herns if you training has fixed that, it was an issue at some point that we were doing too many fully favorable and partially favorable. I dont think i would go so far as to say
The problem of foreign terrorist fighters has seriously worsened. We need a comprehensive approach that encompasses social and ideological components and also that would ensure respect for the sovereignty of all states. We support the initiative of the u. S. Presidency and the Security Council to adopt a resolution aimed at choking off any activities of foreign terrorist fighters. Likee same time, we would to caution again the temptation to narrow down the problem because of the Islamic State with its ideology. There is a need to consider the problems of terrorism and in all its dimensions. Establish a form involving countries of the region, the african union, league of arab states, the permanent five members of the un Security Council council, and other stakeholders. We should address longstanding conflicts primary being the arabisraeli conflict. This is one of the primary reasons enabling terrorist to receive moral support and recruit ever new members into their ranks. We call upon c