Burning house and carried the woman to safety. News4s Mark Seagraves spoke to the hero and the family impacted business his lifesaving effort. Millie jones lived in the house for more than 38 years. She has helped raise three generations of children here. It was her 8yearold great grandson who ran through the house the morning of the blaze, trying to warn people to get out. He is the one that told firefighters where to find his great grandmother. It was the grandson standing with the door open. My grandmom, go get her. Amir johnson is 19 years old. He just graduated from the fire academy in december and hes only been on the streets a few months. Probably my second big fire. I never had to drag someone out of a fire. I was kind of out. He says when he got inside the fire, it was so hot and the smoke so thick that he could hardly see. Searched the first bedroom. Came out of the bedroom. Searched the next bedroom. Came out of that bedroom. I found the grandmother in the last bedroom on th
Our system, all of it was customized and developed in the 50s and 60s. Weve replaced that system with those expenditures. But we still have over 50 applications that need to be replaced. But to show what weve been able to do that, that refund app got 200 million hits last year. 150 million returns across just 85 are processed electronically. That was not only not possible, it was inconceivable 15 years ago. We have made substantial strides. But the 300 million on the Affordable Care act are all challenges for us. Fortunately, the Filing Season this year has been implemented. We have 145,000 foreign Financial Institutions about to provide us data under the foreign account Tax Compliance act. All of those systems had to be built and rebuilt to obama sosh that data. If we could continue with the refund the resources we needed, wed get rid of a lot of these systems. Taxpayers would be able to go on line, as they do with bank of america, wells fargo or fidelity and deal with us without pape
Thank you, mr. Chairman. Commissioner, welcome. I joined with other members of this Committee Last year on a letter to you after it was reported by the Inspector General for Tax Administration that more than 1100 employees had been awarded over a Million Dollars in cash rewards and more than 10,000 in timeoff awards. You made no commitments nor did you set any deadlines. And i know that youve talked a little bit about this already this morning. I just wanted, for the record to get you to speak clearly on this issue. It seems to me that its awfully hard to go to the hardworking american taxpayers and ask them to come ply with the tax laws when you have employee ins your own organization that dont comply. Can you commit to me that you are going to fix this problem and ensure that thats not going to happen again in the future . We have already adopted policies to address the problem. Not engaged in installment agreements, who are becoming compliant. But we still count those as compliant.
Anyone who would like to answer it, did the commission find they the current lack of a Retirement Program similar to that, recommended by the commission, that that is having the absence of a plan like that, right now, is having an impact on recruiting and retention . Currently we dont have a retirement system in place in the military that provides any benefits for those who serve for less than 20 years. Is that impacting recruiting . Senator lee thank you for the question. When we looked, we took a very strategical approach to support an allvolunteer force for the future. And to design that we structured the program for how we might make a recommendation to modernize the current retirement system. The recommendations that we provided within we are absolutely convinced theyre the right set of recommendations here on having a blended retirement plan, and because it does two things. It supports the retention needs by the services, and it also supports the recruiting challenges that the se
Last summer he was called to remove dr. Kent brantly back to the United States for treatment. Dr. Walters said the first thing he did was to google dr. Brantly. Little plug for google there. I know we got some [ laughter ] and the first pickture he saw was of kent and his family. Now remember, the decision to move kent back to the United States was controversial. Some worried about bringing the disease to our shores. But what folks like william knew was that we had to make the decisions based not on fear, but on science, and he knew that we needed to take care of our heroes, who had sacrificed so much to save the lives of others in order for us to continue to get people to make that kind of commitment. They had to know we had their backs in order for us to effectively respond, and so as williams said, we do the work we do to impact something bigger than ourselves. We do the work we do to impact something bigger than ourselves. Thats the test of american leadership. We have this extraor