Us to prevent iran from obtaining a Nuclear Weapon is through principle diplomacy and agreement thats structured exactly like this one, that requires iran to take some significant steps to curtail their Nuclear Program and to agree to have those steps be rigorously verified by the International Community. Ash carter is going to be in israel next week. Hes going to be asking sort of what the israelis need. What if the israelis ask for these bunkerbusting bombs and equipment that would allow them to do this bombing grade on their own. How would the u. S. Respond to those requests . I dont want to preview those conversations at this point. As a general matter, i can tell you that part of the message that secretary carter will be delivering when he travels to israel, and i believe this will be his first trip as secretary of defense to israel, that the message hell be delivering is that the United States and president obama himself is committed to strengthening the Security Cooperation rela
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
The irs targeting of political groups. In october, chaffetz introduced legislation to impeach koskinen. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to the hearing on examining allegations of misconduct on irs commissioner John Koskinen part one. I begin with myself. The constitution sets forth a system of checks and balances and grants each branch of government tools to shake sure no one gets too much power. The power to write the laws, power of the purse, impeachment power and other powers. They allow congress to expert oversight over branches including rooting up corruption, fraud and abuse by government officials and taking further disciplinary action on behalf of the American People when warranted. The duty to serve as a check on the other branches including against corruption and abuse is a solemn one and congress does not and must not take this responsibility lightly. That is why this committee scheduled a hearing
Apparently thats Old Fashioned now. So do you see that expanding more . Yes, congressman cummings. Not my thing. Im talking about absolutely. Hypergrowth. Hypergrowth. The challenge is its a very competitive delivery space. We compete for customers every day. Its the value proposition. Competitive pricing, transit time performance and visibility. And the Postal Service has made investments in all of those components to insure we improve our competitive standing. We need to recognize while our strength is last mile delivery, were challenged there. The socalled uberization of Package Delivery is very competitive. We recognize we have to compete for that business. The challenge ultimately for us, the package growth alone wont offset the losses in firstclass volume. Hence the need to address the legacy costs specifically looking at medicare integration as a cornerstone of our legislative ask. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I now recognize the gentleman from texas, mr. Fahrenthold. I want to foll
With great aplum and not even worry aplomb and not even worry about it this doesnt save us the 340 billion which is what we ought to do, what this amendment does is say, dont spend it on further constructing his useless well, not useless but totally expensive facility, dont waste the money on this boondoggle. And we can spend the money on maybe what the department of energy thinks we ought to do, to dilute and dispose. Or maybe build a fast reactor, which weve had in the past and which russia is using to dispose of their plutonium. Theyre Generating Energy and doing so while getting rid of their unused plutonium. So why dont we just accept this amendment and eliminate thE Construction clause, keep the 340 million in South Carolina so they can be happy, maybe they can spend it on something that might actually work. I reserve the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman eserves. For what purpose does the gentleman from South Carolina seek recognition . Im in opposition and yield mysel