Fraud and Identity Theft. Congressman buchanan chairs the house ways and means subcommittee hearing. The Committee Meeting will come to order, the ways and means oversight subcommittee on irs reforms, Lessons Learned from National Taxpayer advocate. It has been nearly 20 years since Congress Seriously considered reforms to the irs. I am hopeful we embark on a new effort to improve the agency that can work hand in hand with members on both sides of the aisle working to find Common Ground and make progress. It is important to emphasize our effort to reform the irs should not be seen as a punishment or criticism of the average agency or employee. Instead they are recognized the irs mission is important, every Government Entity whether it is private companies, benefit from thorough review and thought for longterm planning and action. That is what we are here today for. I have a business background, i started my own business many years ago and my experience tells me we always need to look f
February 2012 letter . No. N we strongly support the 2012 letter and request. We agree. We agree 100 . And this is to admiral rogers anm to director mccabe. Since Congress Last authorized this authority in 2012, again, have the been any instances involving a deliberate or intentional compliance violation . Not that im aware of. Director mccabe . No, sir. Admiral rogers, this is to you. Fisa 702 statutory authorities were to end or even be diminished, what would be the impact on our National Security . I couldnt generate the same level of insight that the nation, friends and allies around the world count on with respect to counterterrorism, counter proliferation. I could not be able to recreate the insights on the russian efforts to influence the 2016eli election cycle. On without seven t two we could not have produced that level of insight. This is a jump ball. April 26, 2017 before intelligence court held section 72 including sargon and minimization procedures are lawful both under fi
Do and the access that they had to hold and the creation of the new powers including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to the police markets and to prevent abusive or unfair or fraudulent loans and products from being offered. The bill is called hr ten the financial choice act so its a high priority for the speaker and republicans. Heres the headline in the Washington Examiner gop dodd frank replacement bill heads to the house floor in particular on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created under dodd frank what would the gop bill due . It would cut back a lot of the rules. The argument is that the pendulum swung too far after the crisis and that there are so many rules now they are cutting into lending and that means less Economic Growth so the idea is to lessen the burden to get things funding again and that will create Economic Growth and how you prevent the crisis, the argument is to eliminate what they thought created about the sources of investment that led to the c
Task force will be in order to. We have to get this hearing in before the votes start between 11 30 and noon each though its noticed for 10 30, i think the time for Opening Statements will burn up the time between now and 10 30, so we can get to the witnesses. I would like to welcome everyone to todays hearing on the Judiciary Committees overcriminallization task force. The tenth and final hearing will focus on the abundance of federal criminal offenses on the books and the role that the Judiciary Committees jurisdiction or lack thereof under house rules plays on this issue. This committee is comprised of lawmakers with the ability to avoid redundancy with the awareness of the entire body of criminal federal law. With other recommendations we should consider the amendments to clarify not only to criminal Law Enforcement with legislation as well. Again i would like to thank the members of the task force i hope we can come together to address many of the concerns of over criminalization
White house as to what of going on with say this report. Youre not aware of what took place there . So in terms of the ig report, i have no idea what, if anything, was reported to the white house. The visit that i had with mr. Wuerffel was to give his 30day report to the president. Again, what your activity was reported to wuerffel where you were in the investigation and compiling for congress, you werent aware of it being transmitted beyond him . No. Okay. Thank you. We now go to the gentlelady from new york. Miss maloney. Thank you. I regret i was not able to join you last night for the hearing. We had a Financial Services committee or rather a bill on the floor that i had been working on and we were in debate on the floor. I just wanted to make a brief statement about the hearing that we had last night on the overall irs and this whole irs mess seems to flow directly from confusion over just how the irs should enforce a law that was passed by this congress that gives tax exempt stat