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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 c...

This ahead of the expiration of a fiveday ceasefire. The monthlong israelhamas war has killed more than 1900 ofestinians, the majority them civilians, according to palestinian and u. S. Officials. Israel has lost 67 people, all but three of them soldiers. The current fiveday ceasefire is due to end late today. Hasun Security Council scheduled a meeting for this morning. Watch it on cspan or listen to it on cspan radio at 10 00 a. M. Eastern. Those are some of the latest headlines on cspan radio....

Seeking input about how these gdps should be set, what criteria should be applied in setting the gdp. Should it be just about protecting against the risk that we are that fannie and freddie are assuming, should it be about capital formation, should it be about attracting private capital . The process has been very transparent, and so you decided to study it again. Yes. The process that the gentleman from new jersey brought is an issue im interested in as well. In fact, i had conversations with y...

Preferred stock Purchase Agreements were entered into with treasury, that suspended the capital of fannie and freddie. If we were building up capital i understand exactly what youre saying. But those two criteriaen dont apply anymore because they are in conservatorship. Every dime is going to the taxpayers if theres a profit. Theres statutory language here that requires an end to the allocation. I think its very straightforward. But ill close with this. Today, i along with many of my republican ...

Excuse me if im naive about this, but you said they intercepted the p8, and i was wondering if there was any message from the chinese pilot about why they were intercepting it and if if there are any standard procedures that go with an interception, if its noted well, youre not supposed to do a barrel roll over the aircraft. Look, im not aware of any radio communications. Id point you to Pacific Command for details like that. I think the message that they are apparently trying to send was you kn...

Actions bassed on that finding sdsh. I think youre doing exactly what the epa reprimanded you to do. You are tarking cig nef kabltly amousht of power wuz telling. Youve tried to get this aut ri saigsz before and congress has not passed it. Youre not allowed to move forward with the regulation to do Want Congress wont allow. Tlfgs tome e testimony by tony clark who said quote. He later said in spite of epas promise and for exampleblety i states are seeting it mat authority to the epa. J i dont ag...

Right . You are with your friends very often and they walk by a homeless person and the first thing they do is pilaf ones peel off ones and you are like hey, youre not solving the problem. And you know that. With your acute knowledge that you have, we should be putting together policies and strategies to take care of atlantas homeless problem. Something happened. There were breakdowns along the way. We know that Substance Abuse is real. We know when Substance Abuse starts. We know it starts, for...

Have a younger girl cousin, you better be able to pull it back in. Otherwise you are in a heap of trouble. [laughter] what we have to do as social workers is we have to rally around the families who want to support these kids, both want to want to take them back and the one to are going to receive them and encourage them. We should be leading the charge. We should be encouraging people and providing support to the sounds to are from different ethnic groups sued the site to take an africanamerica...

Stable lead. I would say organized labor is doing much more effectively in michigan. I would put a finger on the scale for democrats in michigan, and finally, jeanne shaheen, there are some conflicting calls with most showing her head by half a dozen points. There may be some closure there, but i still think she has a measurable advantage. If republicans need one, it needs to be iowa or colorado. If they simply get republican states voting republican, they dont need to win any swing states, or, ...

Without further a do, but like to introduce secretary michael chertoff, the cofounder of the chertoff group. He was the secretary of the department of Homeland Security. He took that job at a very difficult time and frankly, remade the organization and brought it up to a status where it was extremely effective. I say that as having been the department of defense counterpart to dhs during my time as deputy assistant. I have the opportunity to work extensively with the secretarys folks and quite a...