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Could members of the media please move out of our way so we can begin the hearing . Mr. Horn, you can sit in that chair. Thank you. Thank you and good morning. We now convene this hearing of the oversight and investigation subcommittee on volkswagen emissions cheating allegations, initial questions. Let me start off by saying my first car was a volkswagen. It was a 76 beetle. I learned a lot about cars. I could take that thing apart continued to work. I did all the maintenance myself because vol...

And as you know want that is something that 501 c 3 s already possess. All of the measures that i just mentioned are included in the taxpayer bill of rights. And i hope that we can count on your cooperation on these measures and others that the committee might consider to restore the credibility and integrity of your agency. I say all that, ask those questions. But to the degree you can comment on those, commissioner and then if you can cant, well certainly welcome that for the record. Well, id ...

When you were working to establish the exchange that there was the template your website had issues and im assuming all thats been resolved and the people that went into medicaid temporarily cms approved are now out of that . All of those temporary medicaid members have been redetermined into either requalified health plans or medicaid. Great. And ms. Otoole, do you still have a backlog of about 180,000 public insurance renewals in the system . Thank you for the question, congressman. We do not....

Are protected. I hope this e which can count on the support of you and other high officials at the treasury. And with that what i would like to do is get you views on a few of what i think are the common sense proposals that senator grassley and i have in our legislation to make the irs accountable to the american taxpayers. Im going to read through these and ask you to hold off on commenting. But i want to get the questions in. The first one is that last year the irs proposed its own taxpayer b...

To the state court. And yet people say you should decide the scope question even though the underlying issue may be one of state law. And then finally to the solicitor generals new argument that theres going to be review in this court and de novo review on habeas, the statutory lang wage in 2254d is pretty broad. Quote, any claim that was adjudicated on the merits in state court proceeding, the only claim in this case is remedy. This case was filed after miller was decided. The only issue in thi...

Due to changes and sentencing guidelines, up to 46,000 of them could be released under this initiative. Supporters say this will help with overcrowding of prisons. For the next 45 minutes, we want to get your thoughts under his program and the larger issues of sentencing guidelines and drug offenses. Heres how you can call us you can post on our Facebook Page or send us email as well. This program that was announced previously in the last couple of weeks. Here are the highlights of it. It would ...

There was a forum to talk about the different ways these domestic terrorism events and actors cut across statutes and expertise of the department. It was actually scheduled to meet on september 11, 2001. We reestablished it and started the dtec up again last june. A Civil Rights Division along with many others across the federal Law Enforcement spectrum who work on domestic terrorism matters. As it originally did, it serves as a forum to share information about the trends we see across the leade...

We have been doing it for 20 years. When we began this, people would say that children were dying before they became adults with this disease and people would say, if we keep working hard, eventually we will find a cure. Today, if you are born with Cystic Fibrosis, there are medicines that have been discovered in the last 34 years, and more on the way, that will ultimately allow someone with Cystic Fibrosis to live as long as everybody else. Our grandchildren, being born today, if we get this ri...

Had to be particular rise. Particularized. It highlighted the absence of a protection against general warrants. From rhode island it was only with the understanding that the constitution would be amended with the prohibition on general warrants. In maryland, antifederalists warned that under the new constitution, officers would be able to enter your homes at all times by night or day. If you refused entrance, they can under pretense of searching for goods, break your doors, just, trunks, boxes. ...

Lobby government. At all. Now we try to stop it by saying you will not use any of the money i give you to lobby. But you have plenty of other money, money gets mixed together. So a lot of Big Companies that do business with the government, theyre able to use that money to go lobby and get more. Some of these big corporations have 50 lobbyists, some have 100 lobbyists. But the ones that are usually getting stuff from government, i determine the difference between corporations who want to be left ...