The senate. I congratulate him on his comparable career in the i wish him the very best. Senate incomparable career in the senate. I wish him the very best. I would like to say two other words here. I want to make sure there is a separate place in the record for what i am going to say. I ask consent for that to be the case. Without objection. It is said that you dont chose your family and that is true. We are born into our family and we have no way to determine the family we are born into. Jay rockfeller chose to make the people of this area his community. How did that happen . Born in new york to one of the most famous people like this end up in West Virginia. I was an undergradate student at harvard and he decided he didnt like things they were doing so he left and dropped out of school. He went to japan and spent three years there. He became an interpreter and knows the japanese language well and loves the japanese people today. He started out at harvard and came back and was there
Mr. Carper mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from delaware. Mr. Carper mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Carper thank you mr. President. Well mr. President Congress Says here we do a lot of oversight, oversight thats focused on what is going right and also what is going wrong in our government. Theres a lot of each actually. That oversight is critically important work. Sometimes overlooked but critically important. I think its also important to stop and recognize where things are going right from time to time and people that are doing the right thing. Following in the footsteps of one of our former colleagues here i dont think the presiding officer had a chance to work with him but ted kaufman served here for two years. He succeeded joe biden and went off to do some other job. I think Vice President maybe thats what he is. And then before senator chris coons was elected two years later,
Noted in my testimony in 2013 as a result of spending and Information Technology the Information Technology business, modernization problem for the irs was taken of the highrisk list having been there for 14 years. It was proven in the i t area that if we have the funding we can make significant progress. Is great for the i t area but other areas need to be addressed and 25 years is far too long. Time to put some teeth into it. I now recognize the gentleman from florida for five minutes. Commissioner koskinen, a year ago the senior irs leaders and learned lois lerners hard drive had crashed. There was an issue about getting her emails off of backup tapes, you wrote a letter to Senate Finance in june of 2014 saying there were problems with her emails and backup tapes had been destroyed. And on june 20th you testified before the ways and means committee, went to Great Lengths and made extraordinary efforts to recover lower as lerners email please let me ask you this, after the irs began
Deferring to this week, trying to make the process slightly better. I certainly appreciate in spite of the fact we dont have a full presentation, i appreciate the presentation hes going to make. Mr. Secretary. Well, mr. Chairman and Ranking Member corker, it really is a pleasure for me to be back before the Foreign Relations committee. During my time here we have some things right. We certainly wound with up wishing we had done things differently. Most of us would agree and i saw it during both parties chairmanships including the years senator luger and i were here that this Committee Works best and makes the greatest contribution to the Foreign Policy and our country when it addresses the most important issues in a strong bipartisan fashion. This is one of those issues. The chairman and the Ranking Member both said that. This is one of the moments when the bipartisan approach really is critical. As you know, the president is committed to engaging with the committee and all of your col
The out of cost pocket insurance is going high. I dont know whats happening with new york. Everybody needs to create a p. O. Boxer for new york to get low health care costs. We will be going shortly to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Secretary of state john kerry is expected to testify on isis. Also, earlier we could hear about the release of the cia report. The report on the cia about their interrogation techniques. Well take a few more calls before the Senate Hearing begins. San antonio, texas. Catherine, go ahead. Thank you. As a spanish person its really an eye opener. Let me tell you something. I came here 40 years ago. The country was so different. There was not this division that it is now thats been driven by so many people. I sit here and i watch this. I think to myself this is the country that i came from. They come up here. They lie to you. They get away with it and they take our money. There is no repercussions for these people. We as the American People need to cla