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Im sure the significance of this position at this crucial time is not lost on you. Its not lost on any member of the committee. Its a major focus of the committee for some time now and we agreed to have you here to discuss your thoughts on these matters. On a number of occasions i stated the president ial leadership would be a key component to any successful tax reform effort. Just last week i quoted president obama at a speech on the senate floor back in 2012 he said things like the current Cor...

Im sure the significance of this position at this crucial time is not lost on you. Its not lost on any member of the committee. Its a major focus of the committee for some time now and we agreed to have you here to discuss your thoughts on these matters. On a number of occasions i stated the president ial leadership would be a key component to any successful tax reform effort. Just last week i quoted president obama at a speech on the senate floor back in 2012 he said things like the current Cor...

A few that have been here before the committee a number of times you just cant tell you what it means to us. But now we are going to shift a little bit and consider the nomination of mr. David to serve as the assistant secretary of treasury for tax policy. Welcome to the finance committee. We appreciate the willingness to adhere today and we also appreciate the willingness to serve in this capacity. Im sure the significance of this position at this crucial time is not lost on you. Its not lost o...

A few that have been here before the committee a number of times you just cant tell you what it means to us. But now we are going to shift a little bit and consider the nomination of mr. David to serve as the assistant secretary of treasury for tax policy. Welcome to the finance committee. We appreciate the willingness to adhere today and we also appreciate the willingness to serve in this capacity. Im sure the significance of this position at this crucial time is not lost on you. Its not lost o...

Why despite the reform activities in the process are taking longer in fiscal year 2015 is an average of 95 days to process the secret clearance and 179 days for the secret clearance. In 2016, it took an average of 166 days to process and 246 for the topsecret clearance. Thats quite a job in the timeline it takes to get there. More than a decade ago that processes were transferred from the department of defense and now there is talk of transferring the process back to the department of defense. W...

Why despite the reform activities in the process are taking longer in fiscal year 2015 is an average of 95 days to process the secret clearance and 179 days for the secret clearance. In 2016, it took an average of 166 days to process and 246 for the topsecret clearance. Thats quite a job in the timeline it takes to get there. More than a decade ago that processes were transferred from the department of defense and now there is talk of transferring the process back to the department of defense. W...

Efficiency of federal employee background checks. The Oversight Reform Committee questioned office and management of budget officials to protect federal employees personal information. This hearing is about 2. 5 hours. Committee on oversight government reform will come to order and without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. Appreciate you all being here. We have very important hearing. We have a number of members that im sure will be here, but it will be late. Th...

I talk to colleagues, friends and customers. Most of whom are ineligible. So we have a huge they have a great deal of trouble managing services for their parents, finding services for the parents, deciding about services for the parents and themselves. The largest share of the demographic is not eligible for anything. We need much Better Services between ccrcs and medicaid. There is a Huge Population that has a great deal of trouble. I want to encourage us to use the private sector or use encour...

The way advanced appropriations work. I support that and the frustration i have here is the billion dollars we spent. Last year about this time chairman remembers this very well, where we couldnt have an integrated Electronic Health record where the va and dod we flushed a billion dollars and still cant make it work. Thats something that i think this is my sixth year here. I cannot understand in todays technology why a veteran Service Member cant lead and electronically transfer their record. It...

Ago you could have pumped out of all of lois lerner emails and dumped them on Senate Finance and ways and means. You did not do that. The eventually negotiated to my consternation a subset of all of her emails. I find it less than helpful and i find youre talking about reduction in time to inappropriate when you couldve given ways and means all lois lerner emails in a matter of seconds. It really is that simple and i assume they have access to them. So i appreciate we will have to work with you ...