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Im actively working with the chairman and our colleagues on this committee to reintroduce legislation from the last session to tackle the problem of improper payments to dead people. Unfortunately we have more work ahead. Last week the Social Security Inspector General released a report stating that 6. 5 Million People have active Social Security numbers who based on the Social Security own records would be more than 112 years old. I think maybe in our country weve had just a handful of people a...

Families. And we also know that as demand grows for each sale whether fire trucks or ice cream, the jobs either come to america or they go some place else. It is a zero sum gain. Thats the choice being made. And it is a fact some politicians seem to ignore. And who feels the impact most of all . Small businesses and they make up about 90 of the exim customer base. More and more Small Businesses are making exporting a part of their dna. They know the opportunity is out there. But many of them don...

About the eligibility requirements of the current child nutrition assistance cadre of programs as they exist today . I think the important thing when youre talking about reducing errors and improper payment which is i think we all agree is a very important endeavor is to create a culture where a culture of compliance with the rules. We want the rules to be followed. I dont think the rules themselves are the problem i think its helping people understand them and there are lots of different people...

Has put in place knew rules for prime institutional funds that get rid of the fixed dollar value. They will have net asset values that will reduce run risk. That aside to allow firms to impose fees something that could create Financial Stability risk that we need to watch. The so called Triparty Repo market which is a major source of shortterm wholesale funding, that contained great risks. We have taken steps important steps to mitigate. Central counterparties a thrust of reform has been to try ...

Culpable if not more culpable than the person who knows the facts. Youre going to send him up the river for 15 years. Again we believe is justice culpable . We think certainly its sufficient if the government can prove that the defendant knowingly distributed a drug believing it to be illegal to do so. Whether or not he knew what provision of law. Illegal because in fact its bad for animals and the law involved prevents veterinarians from using this kind of drug for animal treatment. Thats all h...

Thank you. Do you think that a shift from the current verification process that emphasizes for cause verification would enhance the Program Integrity and secondly would it have a negative effect on access for eligible participants . No, i think theyre again senator, there is a way to do it without aversely impacting people that truly deserve it and what we found in our work is for cause, thats the review of questionable applications. Some School Districts were not doing any for cause verificatio...

Helping them fight for their own freedom in the sense that we are giving the military aid . Are we still talking about that or actually doing that . In the last 14 months we have provided over 108 million in Security Assistance. I can you do a rundown of what would be included in that, but it would it would be things like medications equipment emergency medical, those kind of things. We will look at what more we can do. That is all nonlethal aid. Are we sending any guns, bullets . No, sir. Why n...

Muttonjeff combination. He was very robust, terrific and natural athlete. Madison is a skinny little guy. This sunday on q a, the founding father James Madison and the success he made in our nation. The gift i like most about is his ability to perform to reform relationships with the great people of his era and it also opens to his gift to the country of his talents and what he was able to do to help create the first selfsustaining constitutional republic. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern and pacifi...

Attack takes place in our own country. This president by the way his former secretary of state let us down in this regard. We will hear from hillary clinton, from an emilys list gala, and we will hear from jeb bush in iowa, speaking at a fundraiser for david young today at 6 30 p. M. Eastern here on cspan. The Senate Appropriations Committee Held a hearing on tuesday to review the president s budget request for the Treasury Department. Jack lew and john cost them and discussed why additional spe...

No, i dont think there are there is additional ver figureation. Gherting information that they believe to be true and correct. There is no additional verification. This is agency policy; correct . Senator mccaskill . The agency is not permitted to spend trust fund dollars or a limited administrative tax account on items that dont have a Program Purpose and thats the basis on which we dont verify nonbeneficiary reports senator mccaskill okay. I completely get that but you understand the commonsen...