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Later, the irs commissioner testifies. Our issue spotlight programming begins with tea party and other groups. Patriotsof the testified that they were filingd by the irs after for tax exempt status. This portion of the hearing is about one hour. Good morning. My name is catherine. A nonprofitrman of organization. Thank you for the opportunity to share my story. Citizens just like me are being targeted right administration willing to take any action necessary to silence opposition. I am an averag...

They fail to identify shortfalls in resources and take action to obtain the Additional Resources they have needed. And they fail to set the standards for honesty and integrity and quash the culture of self protection and retaliation. As you would expect, weve made a number of leadership changes in the field and at the Central Office. To help address our immediate concerns, we brought in former v. A. Undersecretary for health, dr. Jonathan perlin, for a short tour duty as senior advisor. And we b...

Wine or something theyll forget immediately lets make a donation on their behalf. So we went and had a meeting with this father and brother and said hey, were going to give you this money. What are you going to use it for . They said, i just want to be able to talk to my brother again. I just want to be able to communicate with him. I said, wait a second. How do you communicate now . They said, we do it with a device called a piece of paper. And the piece of paper has a letter, all the letters w...

Why some are calling this a privilege toll moment in the scandal. And u2. A surprise concert in times square from u2. But with bono recovering from the bike accident, he calls in some high powered people to replace him. Its the boss himself making it a beautiful night for fans tote, tuesday, december 2, 2014. From nbc news this is today. With matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1 a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a Tuesday Morning. A lot of people still ...

Pivotal moment in the scandal. And you who . A surprise concert in times square with u2. With bono recovering from that bike accident, he calls in some power. Where the streets have no name yes, the boss himself making for a beautiful night for music fans today, tuesday, december 2nd, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a tuesday morning. A lot of people still talki...

Corrupt or certainly appears to be corrupt and the subject of a grateful of controversy in the city 0 over the last few years ill ask we go forward on this one as well and have the staff come back to us with some suggested language for a good a regulation that has teeth not allowing the kind of pay to play that is suggested by someone getting a Public Benefit in being able to contribute to the person who is going to make the decision theyre going to get the benefit. Other comments from any of th...

State law a limit on contributions that can be received by appointed officials not to necessarily elected officials but appointed to sit on a commission they cant receive contributions of more than 250 thats a general summon im happy to answer any questions you may have. Any comments. Commissioner Vice President haney. Yes. Mr. Chair this is one that i would respectfully suggest we go forward with the whole i think something is lost with praeks they ask whether it is valuable and so target in on...

The ethics laws were out dated or confusing and not inadequately addressing the regulations so the Ethics Commission spent the last 11 months discussing this with the public and city officials and legal experts cross california proposition e is a result i urge you not reimpact any of the confusions of prop j. Any other Public Comment all in favor of the motion. I. I. Opposed the motion is passed turning to 5 which is environment as a penalty. Commissioner. This proposal the idea is to add a pena...

Sort of goes to the heart of something that may well be corrupt or certainly appears to be corrupt and the subject of a grateful of controversy in the city 0 over the last few years ill ask we go forward on this one as well and have the staff come back to us with some suggested language for a good a regulation that has teeth not allowing the kind of pay to play that is suggested by someone getting a Public Benefit in being able to contribute to the person who is going to make the decision theyre...

Commissioner. This proposal the idea is to add a penalty for violations of the campaign refinance ordinance for those who are city contractors and so the proposal is to debarment it prohibits persons who might do business with the city and county of San Francisco from doing so or bidding on the contract for a certain determined period of time if they were to violate c from or proportions of c from i understand it on a similar provision that was impacted by the voters in los angeles and so this i...